Concave sub surfaces

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on June 1, 2017 at 5:24am

I can see two approaches that make some sense. One is to let the edges between adjacent surfaces be incidental. Basically, you create the concave surfaces and wherever they intersect, they intersect and that's where you get edges. I can see various problems with this approach, not in the least that Rhino has a long history of failed solid booleans when more than two surfaces meet. Another major problem is that it will be quite difficult to get four edges to meet in exactly one point.

Another approach is to create the grid of edges as a starting point, and only then create the concave surfaces from these edges, either as Lofts, or Patches, or Sweeps, or straight from control-points, or...

Permalink Reply by Nelson on June 1, 2017 at 8:55am

Thanks David,

I chose the second method but I'm stuck as soon as I need to create the surfaces from the edges.

I don't know how to tell Gh to make a sub surface of each intersections, each nodes.

Maybe it's not really clear, here's the begining of my Definition.

If you could tell me which components I should use it would be brilliant.

Thanks again.

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• Concave sub surface.gh, 9 KB

Permalink Reply by Hyungsoo Kim on June 1, 2017 at 1:20pm

Hi.

Take a look at the attachment. It's a bit long since the part of removing lunchbox panel seams.

You can also choose another path by using mesh subdivision. 

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• Concavesubsurface_re.gh, 21 KB

Permalink Reply by Nelson on June 2, 2017 at 3:15am

Wow, thanks a lot, that's exactly what I tried to achive but I couldn't by my own.

Gh community is incredible!

Now I'm going to decompose the process and try to understand every steps.

Thanks again Kim!