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 giz05mo on April 12, 2012 at 1:49pm

use extrude

Permalink Reply by Ricardo A. Maturana on April 12, 2012 at 2:26pm

But with extrude i can only do in one vector direction...What if it's a curved surface?

Thank you for your reply

Permalink Reply by Ching on April 12, 2012 at 2:13pm

Or loft the two surface edges after you've offset the first one. Then Cap it to make it solid.

Permalink Reply by Ricardo A. Maturana on April 12, 2012 at 2:17pm

yeah that's what I was thinking on doing.

Thanks.

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on April 12, 2012 at 2:33pm

grasshopper can loft two surfaces together, no need to even use the edges. Its one of my personal favorite little tweaks that grasshopper's loft has over rhino's loft.

Permalink Reply by Ching on April 12, 2012 at 6:39pm

Wow that's interesting to know, one more reason to always keep my grasshopper opened in Rhino.

Permalink Reply by Navaneeth on July 21, 2012 at 10:25pm

thats awsm!!...thanks

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on July 22, 2012 at 2:23am

Actually it can't. When you feed a surface into a curve parameter, it just internally creates a curve based on the surface boundary. So as long as the surfaces only have a single boundary curve it appears to work, but when the surfaces have internal closed trims it will fail as a single surface now has to be converted into multiple curves, and that would break conversion constraints.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on July 22, 2012 at 4:25am

well yea, I meant a surfaces with no holes :)

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