fillet rectangles surface tasselation:loft problems

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Permalink Reply by Chris Wilkins on December 23, 2009 at 10:54am

Hi, You just needed your paths to be set up right for the loft. I'm assuming you wanted the loft to look like this image. It can probably be done cleaner than I just did it, but I'm still somewhat new with path logic.

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• filletrectpanelization2.ghx, 343 KB

Permalink Reply by Paolo Alborghetti on December 23, 2009 at 1:00pm

Hi Chris,
First of all,thank you very much for your help.I took a look at your file and i think i understood what you did(i hope so).Practically you have simplified the tree structure from (0;0;1;0;0) etc to (0;1) etc.
Am i saying right?I'm new with path logic too.

Permalink Reply by Chris Wilkins on December 23, 2009 at 1:41pm

Yes. It wasn't about the simplification, but about the original curves and the offset curves having the same path structure so that they could be merged. See in the parameter viewer, there are 8 paths of 2. So you are sending each set of two curves to be lofted (8 times). The merge put the two sets of curves together that way, but would not have worked same if the path structure was different (as it was before the flatten and graft). Below is a cleaner method using the path mapper.

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• filletrectpanelization3.ghx, 310 KB

Permalink Reply by Paolo Alborghetti on December 23, 2009 at 1:55pm

oh ok now i understand!with the path mapper you make the tree structure of the offseted lines equal to fillet lines.One question:the letters a,b,c ,d in the path mapper refers to branches,isn't it?
Thank you Chris!I'm learning a lot from you!
Paolo

Permalink Reply by Chris Wilkins on December 23, 2009 at 2:17pm

Here is Sameer's explanation of path mapper:

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/path-mapper-component-what