add components

I know there are some VB scripts out there but is it possible to make grasshopper native componets for contour, flowalongsurface, and blend perpendicular in the next updates?

Thanks

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on August 12, 2011 at 11:03am

Contour yes, FlowAlongSurface and Blend no, those two aren't in the Rhino SDK yet.

How would you like to define the contour input? A starting point, direction and contour distance? A line segment and division count? A base plane and a collection of offset values?

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on August 12, 2011 at 11:06am

If you implemented the "A starting point, direction and contour distance" would you be able to have different distances? (Long list data matched)

Otherwise my vote goes for "A base plane and a collection of offset values"

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on August 12, 2011 at 11:40am

I also say start point, direction, and contour distance. Is it possible to make the input for contour distance accept either a single number (slider, number, ect) or accept list values, so we can get unevenly contour distances?

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on August 12, 2011 at 12:10pm

I can certainly operate on a list of distances. But that still leaves open the question whether those distances are between sections, or from the starting point. Maybe it makes sense to have both options, one that resembles the Rhino Contour command as closely as possible, the other that uses a base plane and offsets (where offsets are measures from the base plane, not the previous offset).

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on August 12, 2011 at 1:29pm

could it also work on curves like the rhino version, essentially creating points? The reason I see this as being different then the other curve division components is that it has the possibility of dividing curves into uneven segments, also if the curve is infact curved you could get some interesting divisions due to the fact that the contour is offsetting in one direction yet the curve goes in multiple. Thanks

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on August 12, 2011 at 9:20pm

I'd rather make a different component for this since the output is so different.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on August 12, 2011 at 10:28pm

So is that a possibility then? Also I really wish there was a divide curve command to divide segments unevenly. Maybe not the most important thing though.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on August 13, 2011 at 2:37am

Already wrote them. You can use Eval length and then shatter if you want to divide unequally.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on August 13, 2011 at 2:43pm

nice, thanks

Permalink Reply by Seb Andraos on August 29, 2012 at 5:51am

Hi, I know this is an old thread but could anyone give me a quick run down of how to get unequal distances between contours. Just by pumping a list in I get all the possible values, ie divisions every 3 4.5 and 6. I have a single surface, single start point and single vector being input

I'm aiming for divisions at 6, 10.5, 13.5 and +3 from there on (only 5-10 more so fine to manually input each value)

My make shift solution is to use the heights, 6, 10.5 etc, map the resulting tree back to a per height basis and then just take n=0 but that feels a little convoluted

Thanks in advance

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on August 29, 2012 at 6:14am

use contour that is doing distances from base point. Not the one doing distance between contours. I think its contour (ex).

Permalink Reply by Seb Andraos on August 29, 2012 at 6:46am

Bingo,

Thanks a lot