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"Looking forward to the next release.  Thanks David."

"Hi Dan: I hadn't considered using Kangaroo.  Neat and very colorful. I'll study your solution."

" Here's a roughly even distribution of spheres using springs in Kangaroo. "

"The Populate components will insert points in an iterative fashion, filling up the largest gaps first (though the algorithm is highly optimized and therefore the results are proximate at best). The attached animation shows [Populate Rectangle]…"

"Thanks David:  how about distributing points more-or-less equidistantly on a closed surface?"

"Hi Al, it depends what you mean by 'regularly'. It probably not possible (except in a few special cases) to regularly pack spheres on a curved base surface. -- David Rutten david@mcneel.com Poprad, Slovakia"

"I've solved this problem by manual calculations of a filleted solid. But it cannot be applied to the solid objects. You have to create object by drawing base and top curves and loft. After top curve, script adds additional curves, it's…"

"can't it be called via vb in grasshopper??"

"I guess you could get the effect of a fillet edge with weaver birds catmul-Clark (probably spelled wrong). You have to convert to mesh tho. Or maybe the geometry to T-splints component, T spline have a natural filleted edge."

"PITY!!!!!   it would be too well if I could fillet edges automatically :) Is there maybe a new function in the newest Grasshopper version?   Hope for an answer :P"

"Hi Al,   nope. There's not even a horribly complicated way to fillet the edge of a Brep. Filleting breps is not exposed in the Rhino SDK (yet) and thus can only be accessed via the FilletEdge command.   -- David…"

"Hi Gennaro:  I've got the same thing.  Here's some files. Al  "

"Thanks Danny, it was the Pframes that I didn't think of.  I do want to move them individually but thanks for the hint about groups.  I'm playing with contour lines on terrain maps so this is a common problem.   Al  "

"With the orientation of your curve you will need to use the Perp Frames component but also because they're not at the origin you need to specify a plane to go from. Lastly there are lost of curves in your component If you want all of them to…"