Surface Offset - Solid Option

New to Rhino and Grasshopper so this question may seem naive to some of you.

How can I turn a Surface using surface offset into a solid? I know it can be done in Rhino, just trying to figure out how to do it in grasshopper.

Thank you.

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Permalink Reply by David Eberwein on April 30, 2015 at 7:23pm

With what command exactly?

Permalink Reply by vasundhara raj on November 3, 2017 at 5:17am

there's an app for rhino called peacock, there's a component called "surface offset solid" try that?
i'm a newbie, so i dont have much knowledge as of now. but i hope it helps

Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on November 3, 2017 at 7:06am

Attachments:

thicken_2017Oct31b.gh, 32 KB

Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on November 3, 2017 at 7:29am

By the way, this cluster lofts edges so it will handle surfaces with holes:

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thicken_2017Nov3a.gh, 42 KB

Permalink Reply by Hugo Thibaudeau on November 3, 2017 at 4:16pm

Awesome, i've been looking for over a week to get this done. Thanks a lot!

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on November 3, 2017 at 1:17pm

Alternatively with wireframe.

Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on November 3, 2017 at 2:43pm

Post the code please?

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on November 3, 2017 at 3:11pm

Weird. Thought I did. Prolly hit Add Reply too soon. Anyway here it is.

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Offset Solid.gh, 9 KB

Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on November 3, 2017 at 3:51pm

Cool but it fails to handle a list of surfaces?

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on November 3, 2017 at 4:39pm

Sorry, I am in C# brain mode where things like that would loop. Here is for multi. However it is not any more beneficial than what you are already doing, just providing another option.

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OffsetSolid-Multi.gh, 18 KB

Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on November 3, 2017 at 5:37pm

I'm not trying to be a pain but your code fails when the input has branches (or is just grafted) - gotta watch those data trees!

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OffsetSolidMulti_2017Nov3a.gh, 35 KB

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on November 3, 2017 at 5:48pm

Well. Gh defs aren't really supposed to cover every case. Usually you make the def for what you know you need to do. I didn't see anyone ask for it to work like that. In the case of working for all cases better to just script it.