Unroll Surface and Breps

The Unroller script has been reworked from scratch. And is a lot more reliable with Brep input. As well the placement of the unrolled surfaces works a lot better now.

The script has turned into a userobject. You need to place the .ghuser file in the UserObject folder of Grasshopper (File - Special Folders - User Object Folder). Thats all, after drop you can use it without a restart of GH or Rhino.

Contact me if you have some question or for bug reports.

Enjoy!

Attachments:

Unroll.ghuser, 23 KB
Unroll_example.gh, 161 KB

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Justin on July 6, 2015 at 8:03am

Hi Florian,

I really appreciate your tools. But do we know how the unroll component orients the geometry in the frame? It seems geometry gets rotated or flipped when placed on the specified frames. And if it is getting disoriented I'm also not sure why when I unroll points with my surfaces, the point order also gets messed up...Any help would be great! thanks again.

Permalink Reply by Florian Frank on July 8, 2015 at 7:49am

Hi Justin,

it's pretty hard to understand, what and where something went wrong, without an example. Can you please post an example File, of what you were trying to do?

Please download also the new FabTools, if you didn't already. There is a new unroll and arrange component which allows to be more flexible when you want to place pieces in a frame.

Cheers,

Permalink Reply by Justin on July 27, 2015 at 7:15am

Hi Florian,

Thank you for your reply, I've attached a simple example file, that will hopefully better explain my translation issue.

Any help would be great!

Thanks again

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