Curve Network Surface to GH

Hi all,

It would be great to add Network Surface command to Grasshopper.

We are working in a parametric shoe last and we stuck creating the final surface. We can only get the curves, bake them and then do the surface.

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Permalink Reply by Dirk Anderson on June 17, 2009 at 11:54pm

Since Network Surface isn't even in SDK I'm not sure what the chances of getting this in as a component. Here's a very sketchy VB that calls Rhino commands to create a network surface. The surface will only work if the original curves can be determined by autosort. The component also works best if the curve list going into the component is not directly modified as Rhino geometry (at subObject level).

Attachments:

networkSrf.3dm, 75 KB
networkSrf.ghx, 20 KB

Permalink Reply by Rene Medel on June 24, 2009 at 12:56pm

Thank you Dirk.
We are doing some tests with your VB suggestion.

Thanks for your complete and open reply.

Regards,

René Medel

Permalink Reply by Dirk Anderson on June 24, 2009 at 4:15pm

As Luis suggested here, you can add MRhinoView.EnableDrawing(False) at the start of the script and MRhinoView.EnableDrawing(True) at the end - this will turn of the viewport update - it can be a little buggy, however, pressing ESC will return true. I couldn't find how to turn the command prompt echo off as this should also speed up the operation.

Permalink Reply by Rene Medel on June 24, 2009 at 6:39pm

Ok Dirk,
Thanks agains. We´ll try this.

Regards

Permalink Reply by Carlo Beltracchi on June 29, 2009 at 8:26am

I'm interested on this...
Is there some news?

Sorry, I can't still script...I only use the GH...so I'm in your hands

Permalink Reply by Claas Eicke Kuhnen on February 20, 2010 at 3:42pm

Hey,

pretty sweet idea to make Rhino create the surface and let
Grasshopper import it as Geometry.

Is there any change to speed up the process?

A simple surface modification is slow, with a complicated surface I do not even want to know
how slow it might be.

Permalink Reply by Claas Eicke Kuhnen on February 20, 2010 at 3:55pm

I get some strange behaviors

I can initially build the surface,
but when I change a curve the grasshoper results
is gone.

when I than delete the curve input in grasshopper
the GH surface becomes visible.
however my RHino curves are gone.

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