Extruding profile through a rail_Sweep

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Permalink Reply by Jon Mirtschin on February 8, 2011 at 8:30am

Here's the StructDrawRhino attempt at what you wish to model.  I see I still have to activate the surface normal if you want to orient the members to the surface (I'll do it in a moment).  Note also I used Kangaroo to remove duplicate lines.

 

Hope it helps, post back with any questions.

 

Cheers,  Jon

Attachments:

• Sweep_Continuityproblem structdrawrhino.gh, 119 KB

Permalink Reply by Fernando Rial on February 8, 2011 at 9:43am

Hi Jon:
Thanks very much for the solution. I got to a similar solution using your awesome Geometry Gym tools. It saved me a lots of headaches. 

The Kangaroo tip was also very usefull.

Here I post the definition.

Cheers,
Fernando

Attachments:

• Sweep_Continuity problem_2.3dm, 122 KB

Permalink Reply by Jon Mirtschin on February 8, 2011 at 10:31am

I just uploaded a new build with orient to surface normal activated.  I've attached a sample.  Glad the tools are helping.

Attachments:

• test sweep orient.gh, 14 KB

Permalink Reply by Fernando Rial on February 9, 2011 at 7:48am

Very usefull too, but I can't orient it perpendicular to surface.

Thanks very much for the help again!

Cheers

Permalink Reply by Jon Mirtschin on February 15, 2011 at 1:23pm

Sorry, I missed this post.  Can you explain further about how you need the orientation to be defined?  I can better advise how to achieve this.

Permalink Reply by Fernando Rial on March 8, 2011 at 5:32am

Hi Jon:

 

Do you know how can I control the orient to surface normal profile. Because I'm trying to connect the surface which I want the profile to be perpendicular to,  to the input "O" and it is perpendicular when it is paralell to xy plane but no when it gets vertical.

 

Cheers,

Fernando

Permalink Reply by Jon Mirtschin on April 4, 2011 at 8:21am

Hi Fernando,

 

Can you post (or email a file) that demonstrates this please?

 

Thanks,

 

Jon

Permalink Reply by Fernando Rial on April 8, 2011 at 8:55am

Hi Jon:

 

Excuse me for the delay. Here are the files that I had problems with. I finally resolved it with a sweep by two rails with regular GH components.

 

Cheers,

 

Fernando

Attachments:

• Profile perpendicular to surface.3dm, 152 KB
• Profile perpendicular to surface.ghx, 986 KB

Permalink Reply by Jon Mirtschin on April 4, 2011 at 8:25am

can you describe (printscreen image is good) the errors you see?  The version you have installed is compatible with latest grasshopper.

 

I'll check Breps shortly to check they work (and not just surfaces).

 

Thanks,

 

Jon

Permalink Reply by Jon Mirtschin on April 4, 2011 at 4:23pm

Hi Frank,  I went through your post again this morning, and I see what you mean about the errors.  Grasshopper has had substantial changes since this definition was created, I'll try installing the older version shortly and reposting an updated file that works.

 

Cheers,

 

Jon