Displaying solid hatches in Grasshopper

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Permalink Reply by Luis Fraguada on July 10, 2012 at 2:37am

You could also try meshing and turn mesh edges off?

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on July 10, 2012 at 3:31am

I think actually solid hatches are drawn as meshes.

I wrote a small VB component that meshes a collection of closed, planar curves and assigns a single colour to them all. It's not particularly fast (~5 seconds for 10,000 circles) though.

If the curves are all convex, then there are faster ways to draw them, but that will involve a lot more code.

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David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

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Permalink Reply by Karl Wecker on July 11, 2012 at 3:22am

Thanks,

that helps a lot. The curves I'm dealing with are not necessarily convex.

So I'll guess I'll take your definition.

- Karl

P.S.: Your definition was created in 9.2 ... can't wait to have it in my hands.

Permalink Reply by Karl Wecker on July 16, 2012 at 1:20am

Hi David,

I just installed the latest Rhino 5 WIP and after installing the Definition from above is crashing.

I was wondering if you could upload the ghx file, so I could take a look at the component code again. (or alternativelly just post the code)

- Karl

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on July 16, 2012 at 2:30am

Crashing how? If you disable the solver before opening the file, you should be able to see the code inside the VB component.

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David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia