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"The units should all be relative to your Rhino units... I think the default notch thickness I have is either a 1/16th or 1/8th of an inch (0.0626 or 0.125) with a rib spacings of 1 or 3 inches. If you're using metric units the default…"

"Hey Taz A quick question with the rib builder. Is the notch width slider in Inches or what? Thanks, MR"

"Taz Sorry but again i'm having troubles with your rib builder using the following surface which is just a loft of 4 curves. Any ideas?"

""So for the general case (if a constant offset is required) its easier if the user manually offsets all surfaces, cleans up the geometry, and then slices-and-dices a closed BRep." Ok so this seems the way to go then. Thanks for your help…"

"I agree with you, but I was attempting to make it as generic as possible. This issue is this: If you want to create a rib/waffle/grillage from a polysurface with a constant offset, Rhino/GH will only offset each individual surface and these…"

"Taz I think your grillage fabricator would work better if you set such a thing up. Or at least a version of your grillage fabricator that can do this…because sometimes when i use your fabricator if it is just a free flow surface with no…"

"if you have the outlines for each piece, then you can use the "Planar" component to check the planarity of each outline, which will give you the planes upon which they lie. After that, you just need to set up a grid of xy planes and then…"

"_Offset surface from master surface _Duplicate border of master surface and offset surface _Loft the border curves _Join the surfaces You could set up a routine line this in GH too..."

"Another ribbing def."

"Really nice work. Was this done in grasshopper. If so mind sharing the definition. :)"

"Hey Taz Thanks for that. Good idea. Just one question, how did you make a closed ploysurface from the master surface. Thanks"

"If you're interested the grillage fab definition I made would, I believe, still work for you. The was done making a closed polysurface from your master surface. Here is a guide if you wanted to work with my definition and keep your master…"

"Ok so my attempt at getting the curves along the x and y plane attached. Any ideas how to get this to work."