Unwanted Loft twist (no matter what the start point)

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Permalink Reply by peter fotiadis on March 3, 2015 at 10:22am

It's very easy to fix that > post your def.

Permalink Reply by James on March 3, 2015 at 12:45pm

Thanks,

I've re-tried the rotation (as it seems I wasn't applying the rotation) properly.

But as soon as I go to change the circle radius < oblong width I then have to manually reset the the orientation.

Is this a standard? or can I implement a rail/guide?

 

This is what I'm doing, dont laugh. :)

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• LoftTwist.gh, 5 KB

Permalink Reply by James on March 3, 2015 at 12:55pm

Apparently the perfect rotation is -1.571 if you have this definition setup.

Permalink Reply by peter fotiadis on March 3, 2015 at 1:07pm

Have some fun with this as well

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• LoftTwist_v2.gh, 27 KB

Permalink Reply by peter fotiadis on March 3, 2015 at 2:23pm

And for a delirium of twisted things ...

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• LoftTwist_a_bit_more_v2.gh, 22 KB

Permalink Reply by James on March 3, 2015 at 2:49pm

Thanks, these are crazy cool, you might just be a wizard if I hadent seen the code myself. 

Permalink Reply by James on March 3, 2015 at 2:49pm

https://alienationmentale.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/tim-and-eric-...

Permalink Reply by Ethan on March 3, 2015 at 5:16pm

I feel the same way when peter posts solutions *:)

Permalink Reply by peter fotiadis on March 3, 2015 at 4:09pm

He he: I could provide to you with some XXXXXL delirium things (multiply the "crazy" "...a_bit_more_v2..."  * 100+) but they use C# and not GH components.

But if you feel brave enough to wrestle with the Evil ...

he he 

Permalink Reply by peter fotiadis on March 4, 2015 at 12:54am

On the other hand I was thinking that if you are new to the Asylum > you'll try to do something with that Loft > thus > you'll hit the Wall (not the Pink Floyd thing) sooner or later as regards these mysterious DataTrees (an "ordered" collection of single dimension Lists).

And this is the worst possible way to get the gist of them (no ... wait ... I mean the "best", he he). Added a small challenge for the brave as well.

On the other hand GH can operate on another "higher" Level as well (that could sample all these into a single "component" - not a cluster). But that's another story.

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• LoftTwist_v3.gh, 81 KB

Permalink Reply by Andrew Heumann on March 3, 2015 at 7:28pm

As peter's first example shows, the trick is to adjust both curve seams - this will dictate where the loft sort of "begins" and "ends." Here's a simple example of that without any unnecessary hijinks. 

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• Seam_adjustment.gh, 10 KB

Permalink Reply by taz on March 4, 2015 at 1:34pm

+1 (KISS edition)