Wish: Curve Offset Tolerance in Component

by kleerkoat

Nov 30, 2010

Would it be difficult to add an input for the curve offset component to allow us to control the tolerance?  A lot of the times when my offsets fail it's due to the tolerance.

Thanks,
ryan


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    David Rutten

    Hi Ryles,

    are you getting small mistakes in the offset, big mistakes, utter failures? Do you always adjust tolerance downwards or upwards, or maybe you have to finely tune the tolerance for each case?

    I know Curve Offsetting has a lot of problems, but I'm not sure allowing tolerance tweaks is the right solution here.

    I'd love to see a collection of curves that fail with offsets, maybe I can convince the math-heads in the office to take another look at offsetting.

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    David Rutten
    david@mcneel.com
    Seattle, Wa
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    Nov 30, 2010

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      Denny Harmes

      Hi guys,

      Is there an update on this request perhaps?

      I am also in need of a tolerance option in the grasshopper offset element.

      The reason that I need it, is basicly the same as in the original request.

      I have to offset curves that sometimes fail without the tolerance option.


      When doing it 'manually' 1 by 1 in Rhino it mostly works out with adjusting the tolerance.

      I use a it to make bounderies for my CNC milling paths, I need several offsets per object according to the tool diameter.

      thanks!

      Denny

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      Apr 29, 2015