Surface thickness

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Permalink Reply by lucas cañada on January 23, 2012 at 5:41pm

Ciao Jacopo. Not better and not faster than offset surface, you can use the first part groupped of deff (Mesh_brep+Wb thickness for faster and worst) ;)

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• sthickness.3dm, 177 KB
• surfacethickness.gh, 13 KB

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Permalink Reply by Jacopo Baldini on January 24, 2012 at 1:23am

Cool...thanks!

I will try and let u know....

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Permalink Reply by Jacopo Baldini on January 24, 2012 at 5:59am

Works fine...the only things you have to do is redraw in the same direction the profile curves for the loft...^_^

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Permalink Reply by lucas cañada on January 24, 2012 at 7:42am

Right! That is why i used shift list with wrapped values( boolean true) at first part of deff.
Regards ;)

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Permalink Reply by Jacopo Baldini on January 24, 2012 at 3:30pm

Hi,

I'm still having some problem whit the thickness of the surface...I hope someone can help me...

I need to offset the surface 2 times, 20cm first and 10cm the second step but I don't know how to do this,because at the second step I need to offset (extrude-thickness) only the upper profile of the surface...how to do?

I tried to redraw the upper profile and using the definition for offset again but it doesn't work fine beacuse the offset goes in all direction (up,down) I need only up...

Some ideas?

One more problem -> I'm trying to panel the same surface made by the loft of 2 profile but I don't know how if the definition works fine....

I posted the file and the *.gfx definition...

Many thanks!

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• roof.3dm, 69 KB
• surfacethickness+paneling.gh, 18 KB

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Permalink Reply by lucas cañada on January 25, 2012 at 5:31am

im not the best to answer to your second question. Anyone?

Cheers

In your 3dm file ware two polylines with diferent number or edges...i attached another. ;)

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• sthickness_1.3dm, 183 KB
• surfacethickness_2.gh, 20 KB

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Permalink Reply by Jacopo Baldini on January 25, 2012 at 11:26am

Sorry for my nescience but using your new definition and my 2 profile curve I have this result:I don't know if is a geometry problem or something different but actually this way doesn't works fine...

I found another way:

1-make the surface whit sweep 2 rail on Rhino

2-import the surface on grasshopper and use Extrude

is not the same of offset because the tichkness is not homogeneous but it's fine for my purpose....

Anyway If you want you can try to use your definition on my roof.3dm if you do let me know...

Cheersss

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Permalink Reply by lucas cañada on January 25, 2012 at 2:58pm

i have change the plane for offset opperation in the second offset. Cheers. ;)

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• surfacethickness_3.gh, 21 KB

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Permalink Reply by Jacopo Baldini on January 28, 2012 at 2:05am

TNX!

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