Creating adaptive Facade on a brep

Hi,

So I am working a project for school, and I created a definition that has outputs a BREP tower. Now I would like to clad the skin of the tower however the only way I know how to make a skin is starting with a surface. Is there a way to extract the surface information from the brep? If not is there any alternative to manipulating the surface of the brep?

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Studio Project++.3dm, 4.2 MB

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Permalink Reply by Manuel on October 11, 2011 at 3:44pm

use explode brep component and extract the faces (surfaces).

Permalink Reply by Tim Kuhn on October 11, 2011 at 7:32pm

Ok this works for a polygonal object but what happens when the surfaces are not easily defined by rectangles or polygonal shapes?

Permalink Reply by Manuel on October 11, 2011 at 8:40pm

explode work with all breps... then you need to select the face(s) that you want/need to work with it (use list item or similar).

by the way your 3dm file has a lot of duplicate faces.

Permalink Reply by Tim Kuhn on October 12, 2011 at 5:31pm

Yeah I know I am not sure how to clean this thing up. Maybe you can help me. Here is the Grass hopper file I used to create it. It looks how I want it to look but I know that there probably is a better way to do this.

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