Highlighting Boundary Surfaces & Thickening Honeycomb

Hey Guys,

Have been working on creating a pattern onto a surface but I wanted to get my specifications right. The follwoing are two sets of images, Ihave also attached the grasshopper and surface file. The second image is what I wnat to achieve and is highlighted in red. I want the boundary solid and the pattern a little thick. I plan to exture them together so that I get a uniform extraction, but I dont seem to get how to, please help!

Also can you smooth the final extursion? like make the final thing really smooth on the surface?

Thank You so much guys.

Attachments:

Pattern7.gh, 7 KB
NewThing.3dm, 643 KB

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Permalink Reply by Hyungsoo Kim on August 1, 2017 at 9:24pm

Hi.

One way is to use "Surface Morph" after applying the pattern to a planar surface rather than applying directly to the target surface.

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Pattern7_re.gh, 232 KB

Permalink Reply by Gaurav Chauhan on August 1, 2017 at 10:41pm

Hey,

Just had a look and this actually works. From what I understand you have made a planar surface with the same specifications. I was thinking more like a semi automated solution, where I could just import any surface be it with two boundaries or a simple square sheet with four boundaries, the could do exactly what you did.

Any suggestion of the smoothening?

This is great, thank you

Permalink Reply by Hyungsoo Kim on August 1, 2017 at 11:10pm

I don't know exactly what you mean by "smoothing", anyway you can convert your brep to mesh and then you can apply "Mesh Subdivision" algorithm like "Catmull_Clark" subdivision using "Wearverbird" or "Element" plug-in in GH.

Permalink Reply by Gaurav Chauhan on August 1, 2017 at 11:19pm

Yeah I think that's how it's done. What I mean by smoothening is, you know 3dsMax it has turbo smooth, just get the surfaces really smooth I think by creating a lot of phases.

Going away for 3 days will write once I get a chance to experiment.

Thank You

Permalink Reply by Gaurav Chauhan on August 9, 2017 at 1:52pm

Hey,

Just got back, was a longer engagement than I expected. Right I have tried your method and it works but the use is limited. I have been looking at this tutorial about converting all to a mesh and thats for smoothening only. My idea was to work with any type of surface with unknow dimensions and imprint the pattern to it. I think I might achieve that but highlighting the boundary seems to be an issue at the moment.

Any suggestions on highlighting the coundary like you have done earlier?

Thank You

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