Crone intersection and union problem

Hello everybody,

I am looking for an approach how to print a string output when cones are just "interecting" with breps like in the picture below or completly build a "union" for the smaller brep in the cone.

And if the breps are completely outside the cones I would like to print "no touching" or false or anything like that.

I really don't know how to start on this problem. I probably will need to use VB for that or( I know a bit about VB)?

Any help is much appreciated.

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conetobrep.3dm, 45 KB
cronetobrep.gh, 4 KB

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Permalink Reply by Gui Talarico on July 13, 2016 at 12:00pm

Hi Max.

I didn't work out the entire thing, but if I understand you correctly,
you could start with something like this:

- Does it intersect? > Yes or no.

- If it does not, check if point in object (ie. Centroid) is inside the other to know if its fully contained (reason for no intersection)

(PS: if you cap the cone before, intersect may work too. haven't tested, but you do need to cap to check for containment).

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cronetobrep.gh, 15 KB

Permalink Reply by Hyungsoo Kim on July 13, 2016 at 12:48pm

Hi.

You could do somthing like this.

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cronetobrep_re.gh, 17 KB

Permalink Reply by Max Rind on July 19, 2016 at 6:04am

Wow both are super easy and nice approaches. Many Thanks to both of you. I changed it a bit with a easy VB-script to print out the values for unlimited amounts of intersecting breps.

Here is the result.

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