Mesh to surface, loft component

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Permalink Reply by ng5 Alex on August 22, 2014 at 8:34am

Hello

you can try the following

the definition takes the polyline edge of each mesh face, turns it into a surface and then all the surfaces are joined into one open brep.

you will need weaverbird plugin.

cheers

alex

Permalink Reply by s-sharky on August 22, 2014 at 8:38am

thank you, I am still beginner at this. The thing is I need to panel the surface then. Is there a way to do it with brep?

Permalink Reply by ng5 Alex on August 22, 2014 at 8:45am

If you want to panel this then you will need to use planarize force from kangaroo, which works with meshes. check out the examples in the kangaroo group there are several that deal with planarization needed for panels.

another approach would be to use panelling tools or luchbox plugin. search the forum there are lots of threads about paneling.

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/kangaroo/page/example-files  (the zip file and the others)

cheers

alex

Permalink Reply by s-sharky on August 22, 2014 at 9:24am

thanks Alex, I´ll check it all out. Do the panelling tools and lunchbox work with meshes?
I thought I had to convert my mesh to surface to panel it.. Initially I was going to use Divide, SubSrf, Deconstruct Brep and so on.

Permalink Reply by ng5 Alex on August 22, 2014 at 9:28am

they work with breps-surfaces.

check their description page.

Permalink Reply by s-sharky on August 22, 2014 at 9:30am

ok, thanks a lot.

Permalink Reply by Daniel Piker on August 22, 2014 at 9:35am

Here's a definition that uses Kangaroo's 'ByParent' subdivision to keep track of which the original quads and rebuild a NURBS surface at the end

Attachments:

• Nurbs_relax.gh, 16 KB

Permalink Reply by ng5 Alex on August 22, 2014 at 9:48am

Nice!!!