Skipped outlines and layer thickness issues

Hello Hello,

I love the ease of use of Bowerbird, but I seem to be running into a few issues:

1) I need the layers to be .25" thick, but when I set the thickness to this number the outlines dont begin at the 0,0,0 plane that I have set as the origin

2) The layout of the curves skips certain outlines, for instance there should be 163 section curves, but Bowerbird will only out 130 of the actual curves

I have no idea why these errors are occurring, but I have attached the rhino file and the grasshopper I am trying to work with. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

Thanks,

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layer_issue.3dm, 509 KB
layer_issue.gh, 14 KB

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Permalink Reply by martyn hogg on June 28, 2015 at 11:35am

Possibly it's because some of your outlines share planes so there are more outlines than planes and therefore the data does not match up for the orient component.

I think you need to create a flattened list of the outline curves and then somehow populate a list of planes to match them or, perhaps you can group the curves by plane which would mean the outlines would sometimes have more than one curve but get oriented as per the original splitting planes.

I tried creating planes from the "Planar" component for curves so you get one plane per curve and it still doesn't work... some of the output curves are invalid but I can't see why.

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layer_issue.gh, 13 KB

Permalink Reply by Bradley Bowers on June 28, 2015 at 6:28pm

Martyn,

I solved it by working around the actual Bowerbird component, simulating its outputs. The issue I think is a bug in the component; with your method but bypassing the Bowerbird piece it works . . . !!

Permalink Reply by martyn hogg on June 29, 2015 at 12:27pm

cool, the best thing about bowerbird is the waffling component that creates the slots too but I guess you don't need that here!

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