Mesh offset

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Piker on October 18, 2013 at 8:06am

Maybe post the mesh in question to show what 'does not look good' means ?

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on October 18, 2013 at 8:17am

Looks like WB and MeshOffset give the same result on my test-case. Can you show us what's wrong with the WeaverBird mesh?

The Rhino offset function is available in the SDK, so you could call it from within a VB/C# script component. Do this:

• Create a VB script component.
• Rename the first input to M
• Rename the second input to d
• Open the menu for the first input and set the type hint to Mesh
• Open the menu for the second input and set the type hint to Double
• Double click the component and type the following code:

  A = M.Offset(d)

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David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Seattle, WA

Permalink Reply by Henne on October 18, 2013 at 8:46am

Thanks David,

It works perfect.

Is it now possible to close the offset?

regards

henning

Permalink Reply by Lorenzo Franceschini on October 30, 2017 at 2:20am

How could it be integrated to make the resulting mesh as a solid?

Once more thanks for the great quick and efficient solutions. I can say i created my first VB component!

Thanks

Permalink Reply by Anders Holden Deleuran on October 30, 2017 at 3:06am

The Mesh.Offset method has an optional solidify input.

Permalink Reply by Lorenzo Franceschini on October 30, 2017 at 5:59am

Hello Andres, thanks for the reference.
Since i'm not familiar with scripting, I wouldn't know which lines to add to include solidify option.

Any help?
Thanks

Permalink Reply by Anders Holden Deleuran on October 30, 2017 at 6:05am

You add the second optional argument (a boolean in this case) when calling the method, like so (using GHPython):

offsetMesh = nameOfMesh.Offset(42.00,True)

Permalink Reply by Lorenzo Franceschini on October 30, 2017 at 7:10am

Amazing, thank you!

Permalink Reply by Lorenzo Franceschini on October 31, 2017 at 3:37am

Last question.
How can i save the newly created pythonscript component (to which i added an S input bool for solidity) as a GHA user object? I might not be using this mesh transformation for weeks now, so it could be useful having it as a custom object.

Attachments:

• ExtrudeMesh.gh, 3 KB

Permalink Reply by Anders Holden Deleuran on October 31, 2017 at 3:42am

Select the GHPython component and go: File > Create User Object

Permalink Reply by Lorenzo Franceschini on November 5, 2017 at 6:10pm

again, thanks!

Permalink Reply by Anders Holden Deleuran on November 6, 2017 at 4:21am

No worries :)