Overlapping Objects

Hi -

This issue just came up a second time for me in ~3 hours and after working on it for about half of that I figure I'd post it here.

I have two sets of objects, two sets of curves in different modules; one has 50 curves, the other has 25. Some of the objects in each set overlap and are essentially duplicates of each other (but not every curve - The only thing that may vary is the color of the object but the coordinates are exactly the same). I'm looking for a way to isolate only the ones that overlap.

When this problem came up with points I had to do a really annoying process of creating cylinders and intersecting them with another line - basically a really convoluted process that didn't work exactly and was hyper-specific to this situation of points. Now I have the same general problem, just with curves. I feel like if there is not an easy way of doing this in grasshopper (I've searched all over, so I'm not sure if there is) it seems like it would be an extremely simple VB.NET operation.

Can anyone help me out?

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on April 7, 2010 at 2:01pm

So are you looking for something akin to SelDup in Rhino?

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Permalink Reply by nick axel on April 7, 2010 at 2:05pm

yes, just preferably with the ability to have the objects only be on 1 specified layer (so in the example, all of the filtered through objects to be in the second curve set)

Permalink Reply by nick axel on April 7, 2010 at 7:41pm

I just found the Kangaroo plugin that was posted last month. It doesn't look like I can immediately specify which layer the output is on but the functionality will certainly do for now!

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