Surface Offset - Solid Option

New to Rhino and Grasshopper so this question may seem naive to some of you.

How can I turn a Surface using surface offset into a solid? I know it can be done in Rhino, just trying to figure out how to do it in grasshopper.

Thank you.

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Permalink Reply by giz05mo on April 12, 2012 at 1:49pm

use extrude

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Permalink Reply by Ricardo A. Maturana on April 12, 2012 at 2:26pm

But with extrude i can only do in one vector direction...What if it's a curved surface?

Thank you for your reply

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Permalink Reply by Ching on April 12, 2012 at 2:13pm

Or loft the two surface edges after you've offset the first one. Then Cap it to make it solid.

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Permalink Reply by Ricardo A. Maturana on April 12, 2012 at 2:17pm

yeah that's what I was thinking on doing.

Thanks.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on April 12, 2012 at 2:33pm

grasshopper can loft two surfaces together, no need to even use the edges. Its one of my personal favorite little tweaks that grasshopper's loft has over rhino's loft.

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Permalink Reply by Ching on April 12, 2012 at 6:39pm

Wow that's interesting to know, one more reason to always keep my grasshopper opened in Rhino.

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Permalink Reply by navneet on July 21, 2012 at 10:25pm

thats awsm!!...thanks

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on July 22, 2012 at 2:23am

Actually it can't. When you feed a surface into a curve parameter, it just internally creates a curve based on the surface boundary. So as long as the surfaces only have a single boundary curve it appears to work, but when the surfaces have internal closed trims it will fail as a single surface now has to be converted into multiple curves, and that would break conversion constraints.

David Rutten

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Poprad, Slovakia