Cycle operations in GH

is there a cycle operator in GH? Another words. I need to create a number of circles drawn one by another tangented to previous ones. And I also need this cycle to be repeated on defined curve segment only.

Here are some pics

Is there any way of doing that correctly? thx

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Permalink Reply by Nik Willmore on July 19, 2015 at 2:52pm

How do jewelers add the gems when the prongs overlap them? Do they just bend them outwards a bit and also carve notches in them before bending them back? Or does the metal get mashed into the stones to make notches? I haven't found any good YouTube videos about this.

Quite a script! It is elegant how you can just design a 3D object and then apply two curves to a portion of it in 3D space, to get the stones.

Permalink Reply by Dmitry on July 19, 2015 at 4:54pm

Permalink Reply by Dmitry on July 19, 2015 at 5:01pm

Thank you, Nik. I'm just trying to make life easier. Frankly it's not that good side of that ring :) Normally the gems are not so big in this setting. I tested the algorithm to find some narrows and it needs to be fixed. Have some good ideas :)

Here I attached a vieo of how to place the gems even in stainless steel. Better than thousand words.

Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on July 19, 2015 at 6:20pm

That is a STUNNING piece of work! Brilliant and beautiful. An inspiring approach to CAD that applies to other fields, like ports (marine windows) on curved surfaces... Thank you for sharing.