Solid difference between pipe and closed brep

Hi!

I need some help:

I need to create a pipes with some curves, maybe create a unique solid with this result, and finally substract from other solid. I included an image of an example.

thanks for the help

Jesus Lopez

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pipe.gh, 3 KB

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Permalink Reply by Chris Tietjen on January 16, 2012 at 6:13am

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MeshDifference.gh, 9 KB

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Permalink Reply by Jesús López on January 16, 2012 at 9:35am

thanks for your help, but when I opened the file didn't show me the same like you. I have the build 0.8.0065. What could be?

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Permalink Reply by Chris Tietjen on January 16, 2012 at 10:10am

I'm using 0.8.0062. Rhino V4sr9. I always shy away from using the latest releases as they are inevitably a little bit buggy at first. David might know what's going on though. All I can think to suggest is to start at the right end and disconnect components until things look correct and then look at what might be different with the disconnected items.

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Permalink Reply by Jesús López on January 16, 2012 at 3:08pm

Thanks I tried different mesh operations (intersect, union and difference) and the solutión was to use Intersect and union :), but no with difference

Thanks again

Jesus Lopez

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Permalink Reply by Pieter Segeren on January 16, 2012 at 1:34pm

Hi Jesús, good you asked this question, I wonder how come the solid union of the two pipes gives a funky result... anyway, here is my workaround.

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Permalink Reply by Jesús López on January 16, 2012 at 3:06pm

Thanks a Lot, this was a great solution

Jesus Lopez

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Permalink Reply by Pieter Segeren on January 16, 2012 at 11:17pm

You're welcome, I think the funkiness is due to a bug in the pipe component (pipes are inside out). I have no time now to investigate further, but my guess is that the Join component corrects the normals, not sure however.