How can I change this GH file to orient all of the squares upward?

The original surface has a certain wireframe and so the little squares curve with the curves of the wireframe. I am basically trying to make a grid shell with all of the squares evenly spaced and oriented upward. From the top view it should look like an even array or squares.

Thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Brian Harms on February 7, 2017 at 6:48pm

hard to see what your file looks like without the surface you are using. It's a good idea to also upload your rhino file.

From your description, one option would be to just take a rectangular grid and project from above to your surface, then take the vertices of the projected curves and recreate a quadrilateral.

Permalink Reply by Aiden Kashi on February 7, 2017 at 7:47pm

Ok so I have the Rhino file here. I was able to create even perforations (without GH) but they all face up and that becomes a real problem toward the edges.

Permalink Reply by Aiden Kashi on February 7, 2017 at 7:56pm

Rhino file here. I couldn't upload the version with the perforations because its too large but I took a snapshot.

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Rhino Help 2.3dm, 3.3 MB
Screen Shot 2017-02-07 at 9.55.54 PM.png, 1.5 MB

Permalink Reply by Hyungsoo Kim on February 7, 2017 at 10:08pm

Hi.

I can't quite understand what your description means, but according to the screencap,.. could this be an alternative?

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Permalink Reply by Aiden Kashi on February 8, 2017 at 8:16am

Ok so I think these screenshots explain it better. I got the perforations to be evenly spaced- but the problem is that they are all oriented upward so it gets very messy towards the edges. I am trying to get them to wrap around the form and not just punch through it.

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