Paneling srf or mesh by curves

Hello everyone!

I'm trying to repeat this interesting project https://vimeo.com/95527655

Everything is clear except paneling step. Any ideas how to make it properly?

On the video we see lines projected onto the mesh. Projected lines are not closed, there are some gaps near side seams. But the next step is a number of surfaces formed by this lines and (suddenly appeared!) front and side seams. I wonder what is the original technology..

What steps are missing? What instruments are the best for this? Do you think it is a generated surfaces?

My own idea was to make parts by SplitMeshWithCurve, but in that case there's a lot of hand work - trim curves, join all lines, etc ((

p.s. this is more Rhino than Grasshopper question, but i may use GH for some automation

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Permalink Reply by Natalia K on June 9, 2014 at 1:37am

And... are there any tools to project curve to mesh in GH?

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on June 9, 2014 at 3:17am

There is no Native component to project curves to Mesh in GH (That I am aware of)

To achieve the same effect though you can use a [Mesh|Mesh] intersection component.

simply extrude your curves and create a mesh from the resulting BRep and then pass both sets into the [Mesh|Mesh]

From your original post the biggest step that you are missing is Unrolling the Panel onto a flat surface. Offsetting the the boundaries to get the seems is a simple process (provided Offset plays ball)

And then working out the nesting of the panels to reduce wastage in your material costs is another process entirely. Rhino Nest will do this for you but as the video was made in Rhino for Mac I don't know if this is what they used.

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