Trimmed Base Surface

Hi,

When using diamond or any panels from Lunchbox is it possible that resulting panels follows the base Rhino surface. It seems to ignore the base surface which is trimmed and outputs a square or rectangular surface (ignoring the cutout).

Thanks for your help with this.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on October 4, 2017 at 3:07pm

Most grasshopper components (and rhino commands) do this. That is why there is always a "retrim" option (see the rebuild surface options of rhino for instance here). All components and rhino command operate on the underlying untrimmed surface, then if desired via retrim it will just retrim that cutout. If you mean to have the panels flow around the trims it is not an easy thing to do geometrically (if possible at all depending on the case) and probably requires a mesh.

If you don't care about the flow then you can just cut the result with the trimmed surface boundary like below.

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DirtyTrim.gh, 10 KB

Permalink Reply by DILIP MISTRY on October 5, 2017 at 3:11am

Michael, thanks for your reply and the definition, really appreciate it.

Its not ideal but its better than where I was yesterday. Will use your definition for major edge cutouts for some reasons it does not like wholes in the base surface.

Thanks once again for your help with this.

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