Find and Delete all Fully Nested Meshes?

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Permalink Reply by djordje on August 15, 2013 at 11:48pm

Hi Al,

You can cull the smaller pieces by setting a volume "threshold".
Select all your meshes from the .3dm drawing to the initial "mesh" parameter.

Attachments:

• cull_mesh.gh, 5 KB

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on August 16, 2013 at 2:00am

And here's how to remove meshes inside other meshes.

It will not work for intersecting meshes. The logic is thus:

1. Get a point on every mesh. In this case, it's just the first vertex.
2. For all these points, test for all existing meshes whether it is inside any of them.
3. It will always be 'inside' the original mesh, so if the total count is 2 or more, it'll also be inside another mesh.
4. Get the total count by using Mass Addition.
5. Compare the result to 2.
6. Cull using this comparison.

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David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Tirol, Austria

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on August 16, 2013 at 2:09am

Forgot to attach the file.

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David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Tirol, Austria

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• removal.gh, 45 KB

Permalink Reply by Al Ataide on August 16, 2013 at 3:56pm

Thanks Djordje and David.  I appreciate the help.