Keep Faces Together for Mesh+ Effect!?

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Permalink Reply by Petras Vestartas on June 11, 2017 at 3:20am

Rhino 6 wip rhinocommon has a nice feature of ngon within mesh , it is literrally a group of mesh faces within mesh, in the end you can operate with such mesh as polygon mesh in blender.

Or if you are using rhino 5 planktonMesh (http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/plankton) and starling (http://www.food4rhino.com/app/starling) are good options when modelling just with polylines with n vertices.

Permalink Reply by Marc on June 11, 2017 at 1:29pm

Thanks for your reply.

Could you please tell me what components are in your scene in the picture above? All icons are blank. Are these components from the mentioned planktonMesh?

Permalink Reply by Petras Vestartas on June 11, 2017 at 2:18pm

I have been wrapping some functions from ngons and helpers to get adjacency to rhino 6 wip.

If you want I can publish them on food4rhino and add some icons...

planktonMesh I think leopard http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/leopard is a grasshopper add on for rhino 5. But I do not know if there is full functionality to polyline mesh. Just try it.

But in general plankton - it is C# half-edge mesh data structure that is convenient to use when scripting 

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on June 11, 2017 at 3:22pm

Yes, Since Mesh+ works with the face boundaries also you could effect only those face boundaries, then cull those mesh faces out and join+weld the original mesh with the culled faces to the PolyP mesh. 

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• CullReplaceMeshFace.gh, 16 KB

Permalink Reply by Marc on June 11, 2017 at 3:51pm

Thanks for the example, but my goal is to get a single polyp for the entire group boundary. For your example that would mean one spanning over four by four mesh faces.

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on June 11, 2017 at 4:05pm

aha i understand now. In that case use the naked boundary (I'm using weaverbirds naked boundary component - and weaverbirds join+weld)

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• CullReplaceMeshFaceBoundary.gh, 14 KB

Permalink Reply by Marc on June 11, 2017 at 11:46pm

Nice, exactly what I was looking for! Thank you.