Create Solids from planar curves

Hi All,

I have a workflow in Rhino for creating Solids from planar curves (needed for SolidWorks), however i'm totally clueless recreating this in grasshopper or compose an alternative. Any help would be much appriciated.

Rhino Workflow:

First I create planar surfaces from a set of planar curves using PlanarSrf command. This is followed by selecting all new planar surfaces and enable Gumball. I drag the surface and by Alt clicking it makes a copy of this surface, and automatically makes a Solid (inspired by this example). (If I use just ExtrudeSrf it just extrudes the edges and doesn't make a Solid)

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Permalink Reply by dani bas on April 28, 2015 at 10:43am

just check "solid" in the extrusion command line.

Permalink Reply by chrisk on April 28, 2015 at 10:50am

wow, that was simple.

Any possibility to include this option in GH, the normal extrude bulding block doen't provide this.

Permalink Reply by martyn hogg on April 28, 2015 at 4:11pm

I think you can use the "Cap" component which caps the ends

Permalink Reply by Janice de Freitas Pires on July 1, 2017 at 5:01pm

The cap only places planar surfaces or curved surfaces in the open portions, does not add internal information to the model so that it is a solid. I have the same problem because I need two really solid objects that have digital information inside them, not just objects enclosed by surfaces.

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