Solid brep offest

Hi there,

I am trying to offset multiple joined surfaces. Once surfaces are joined in GH they do not work with the offset component (I presume because the offset component is natively looking for a single surface??), so is it possible to do what I have illustrated in the EG attachment? Really I suppose I am trying to thicken multiple surfaces at once.

As a preference this should remain a surface/brep in GH, not be turned into a mesh...

Does any one know of a solution? Something that works similar? A plugin where this is already done?

Many thanks

Matt

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Capture.JPG, 111 KB
EG.JPG, 40 KB

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Permalink Reply by Matthew McFetridge on June 17, 2013 at 6:08pm

I have managed to 'thicken' lines and a surface so far, limitations are there. Any ideas or does anyone know that this is (for example) a too difficult task to undertake?

The goal is to be able to thicken a double curved, multi-faceted surface into a brep/surface - not a mesh

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Thicken_mk1 (01).jpg, 1 MB
Thicken_mk1.gh, 66 KB

Permalink Reply by Sergey Tuliakov on March 17, 2017 at 3:47pm

Any progress?

Permalink Reply by Matthew McFetridge on March 17, 2017 at 7:25pm

Sorry no, I haven't looked at this in a while.

Permalink Reply by Joshu on March 3, 2019 at 8:14am

Here is the best I've been able to do so far. (thanks to Michael Pryor's "slide along curves") Haven't been able to figure out a clean rebuild of the offset yet. Maybe someone else has a solution.

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