Hello, I’m currently working on a Project and i’m trying to add thickness to a Pipe. The Goal is to close the ends of to achieve a single structure. I already created a second Pipe that is smaller than the previous one. Then i tried to use “Solid Difference” to fuse both Pipes. Unfortunately the ends are still open.
I hope you guys can help me or suggest a different approach. Thanks in advance.
Probably first close the two pipes with the Cap component, and then try to do Solid Diff again.
If that does not work properly right away, you can try extending the second pipe so it is slightly longer than the first one; that will probably help the Solid Difference process.
i am not a huge grasshopperer but i also think that should be easier and took a few surprising hacks. nothing too crazy though… still should be easier, i wonder why there is no solid option when offsetting surfaces
closed thickened pipe.gh (4.8 KB)
do i post once in a life time a grasshopper definition being totally proud about it then this.
alright, Pufferfish is faster, i still made it to the finish line first. 
to be honest I would advice against using any Solid Boolean operation unless you are in one of those particular cases where that is the only possible solution
in the case of a pipe with thickness, I think the best approach is working with Joined Surfaces into a closed Brep
if you are working with 5 curves maybe you can be happy with Solid Boolean and the time it takes (and that little probability that something might fail)… but if you are working with like 20+ curves then Solid Bool -imho- is a no go 
Pipe curve no boolean.gh (11.9 KB)
Thank you guys very much for the Help. This is exactly what i needed. Fortunately the Project is not that complex so i will be using the simple way. Still good to know for the Future that there are multiple ways.
