The "thickness" of a Line

I have a Line and I want to change the thickness of that line with Grasshopper. How does this work? ... I want to have a thicker or a thiner line ... Is this possible with Grasshopper? ... If yes, how to do this? ...

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on April 25, 2013 at 9:45am

You cannot modify the thickness in which individual lines are drawn. They are all drawn in the same thickness as the viewport display setting.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Ahmed Hossam on April 25, 2013 at 9:49am

You mean: not possible?

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on April 25, 2013 at 10:08am

Unless you're willing to draw them yourself using C# or VB code then no, not possible.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on April 25, 2013 at 10:09am

One possible solution, which may be moot because of the processor and memory overhead, is to make pipes out of your curves. You can give these any thickness you want. I think there might also be a 3rd party GHA library which has a Mesh Pipe component.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Ahmed Hossam on April 25, 2013 at 10:09am

what is VB code?

Is this free?

yes I'm willing to do so ...

Permalink Reply by Ahmed Hossam on April 25, 2013 at 10:33am

Is VB for free?

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on April 25, 2013 at 10:37am

VB (Visual Basic) and C# (C Sharp) are programming languages. Grasshopper natively supports these two. They are not particularly easy programming languages but they are free.

I'm caught up in the middle of releasing the next version of GH. If you can wait one or two days we can both use the newest version and it will be a bit easier to share code etc.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Ahmed Hossam on April 25, 2013 at 10:42am

And in this new GH Version I can change the shape of a point and the thickness of a line?

Permalink Reply by Ahmed Hossam on April 25, 2013 at 10:48am

I need to have an "O-Shape" for a point and be able to adjust the thickness of a line ...

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on April 25, 2013 at 11:03am

You can always draw your own in grasshopper and place these at the points and the same with the lines you can offset them and create a surface to represent your line

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