lofting

I am trying to loft between the two curves cut from two separate sections. for some reason it is not working at all.

the lofts are offset by .25 to make a kind of accordion. the goal is to make a loft between curve 1+2, 2+3, 3+4....etc

thanks

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ACCORDIAN_02.ghx, 1.3 MB
ACCORDIAN_01.3dm, 479 KB

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Permalink Reply by Manuel on September 23, 2011 at 7:01pm

uff your definition its a mess... there is a "series" component to create numbers in the step that you want, so you dont have to copy and paste components like you do...

But the good news is that in your case you can solve your problem using the flatten on both curves and then loft... and copy/paste for every curve XD (this is a really ugly solution).

The loft component and others components, works in lists, and the input geometry (in this case curves) that you want loft, has to be in the same list. If you use the param viewer component, you can see the data structure (list / paths / branches / etc).

With the flatten component you erase and simplify this data structure and put everything in one simple list, if you merge the two curves, youll put both curves in the same list, so you can loft them.

In resume.... do number 3 in this image :D

Permalink Reply by KRANIERI on September 24, 2011 at 9:01am

also, how would i use the series script? i am not sure how to implement that

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on September 24, 2011 at 9:42am

series generates a list based on a start number, step size between values, and amount of values in a list.

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on September 24, 2011 at 10:36am

what he is saying is you dont need to move each point individually, there are many components and methods that automate this process, by moving them individually u may has well just do it in rhino, its not really parametric at that point.

Permalink Reply by KRANIERI on September 24, 2011 at 9:01am

can you tell im new to GH haha

Permalink Reply by KRANIERI on September 24, 2011 at 9:35am

and again, sorry for replying so many times, do you think you could send me the GHX file you modified?

Permalink Reply by Manuel on September 24, 2011 at 10:05am

hi,

Sorry i dont save the definition.

I recomend you that you do some tutorials to learn grasshopper...

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/page/tutorials-1

start by the grasshopper primer, its a little outdate by it will help you to understand the basics (like a series component and lists).

Anyway i did a quick accordion example so you can check it out (i use random values for inners curves)... i you notice i just did one loft for all the curves (if you need separate surfaces for every pair of curves, you can do that too with the graft component and then merge the two lists).

I hope it helps you.

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