Aligning Rectangles to a curve

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on August 5, 2013 at 7:43am

Hi Adam,

curve normals are planes, not vectors. You cannot place a rectangle perpendicularly to a plane. Perhaps a drawing of what you're after will clear things up.

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David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Tirol, Austria

Permalink Reply by lucas cañada on August 5, 2013 at 7:58am

Hi Adam: Maybe this is what you are after... I´m not sure about what you need that´s why i added this slider to the angle (you probably want to change to 0)

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Permalink Reply by Adam David Hills on August 5, 2013 at 10:21am

Thanks guys, that's exactly what I was after!

Cheers

Permalink Reply by Adam David Hills on August 5, 2013 at 10:27am

Next question, sorry! As soon as I add a value for x and y for the rectangle it's no longer centered on the point and originates from the point instead, any ideas how to retain the point as a centroid for the rectangle?

Thanks

Permalink Reply by lucas cañada on August 5, 2013 at 1:00pm

Hi Adam. Try this. Cheers

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• aligning_1.gh, 8 KB

Permalink Reply by Adam David Hills on August 7, 2013 at 5:11pm

Does anybody know how to do the same thing with triangles?

Permalink Reply by Adam David Hills on August 7, 2013 at 5:41pm

This is as close as I've got with triangles, as you will see it doesn't work properly, I'm not sure where all those extra triangles come from? Would love to know how this could be done most efficiently!

Thanks

Adam

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Permalink Reply by lucas cañada on August 7, 2013 at 7:20pm

Just need to graft T in the last move.

Permalink Reply by 雷锋 on August 7, 2013 at 7:54pm

like this？