How to group sections with multiple objects inside and reorient them?

Hi guys!

I was facing a problem while I was trying to extract multiple sections from a model with lots of different parts on different layers.

I was wondering which kind of operations I should do with the data tree in order to easily group sections composed by multiple objects inside (lines, curves, etc) and reorient them in sequence to an array of points without losing the reference point of every object and keep the same position for all?

Is there a way to have something like one branch/one section group...

I hope to have been clear... thanks in advance to whom will respond me..and happy new year! :)

Marco

(I will attach the image of what I mean... I did it by hand now, and my raw definition).

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m_sects.jpg, 77 KB
multiple_sections.gh, 14 KB

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Permalink Reply by Rémy Maurcot on December 30, 2014 at 6:31am

Hi Marco, please internalise data or send rhino file.

Permalink Reply by Marco Caprani on December 30, 2014 at 7:22am

Thanks for your interest Remi! Now I'm a bit busy, I'm gonna do it asap... i didn't do it because the file was too big, gonna find a way!

Permalink Reply by Marco Caprani on December 30, 2014 at 10:32am

Voilà, here a simplified model and/or an internalised data gh file... just to try

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multiple_sections_int_ex.gh, 152 KB
mult_sect_ex.3dm, 653 KB

Permalink Reply by Marco Caprani on January 3, 2015 at 7:28am

...mhh nobody knows?...

Permalink Reply by Pieter Segeren on January 3, 2015 at 9:04am

Hi Marco, I think you want is use the FlipMatrix component after your TrimTree, that way you get the intersections per 'section plane'.

Permalink Reply by Marco Caprani on January 3, 2015 at 1:33pm

Oh yes... that's true! Thank you Peter! :).... I didn't thought about that!... it works but not completely... some elements are not on the right position on the Z axis... I'm gonna try to figure out why..

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