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Danny Boyes replied to Sam Gitelman's discussion Generate points on 3d section with vectors

"I'm with you now. These are referred to as Frames in GH. A Vector is only direction and magnitude there is no location. You need to evaluate a surface at a given UV to get these Frames but before you can do that you need to know the 2D…"

May 21, 2012

Sam Gitelman replied to Sam Gitelman's discussion Generate points on 3d section with vectors

"Each point has X,Y,Z coordinates. If you create a line through a point normal to the surface with length of 1 the projection of this line to the coordinate planes will give you the vectors. Below is what I just found in Rhino help. u- and…"

May 21, 2012

Danny Boyes replied to Sam Gitelman's discussion Generate points on 3d section with vectors

"Forgive my ignorance, but from where to where? what are the components in {a, b, c, d, e, f} "

May 21, 2012

Sam Gitelman replied to Sam Gitelman's discussion Generate points on 3d section with vectors

"Thank you Danny, The only thing missing is vectors. It should look like {.3456, -1.0235, .5698, .71, .71, 0}"

May 21, 2012

Danny Boyes replied to Sam Gitelman's discussion Generate points on 3d section with vectors

"Do you mean something like this: There is a Spreadsheet writer in gHowl which you will have to install separately to GH"

May 21, 2012

Sam Gitelman posted a discussion

Generate points on 3d section with vectors

Hello,Please help me to find a way to section a 3D surface, generate points along the section, and report generated points with vectors in a text file or a spreadsheet. I will use this points for CMM inspection.Thank you. See More

May 21, 2012

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May 7, 2012

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