Applying a Grid to a SubD

I’m trying to use the lunchbox plugin to create a grid on this pretty complex SubD. I have found a workaround to get close to the solution I want, but it is not as intuitive or accurate as I’d like it to be. I just have been applying the 2d pattern to a surface and projecting that to the SubD, but the grid spacing isn’t equal especially in places where the shape moves in the Z direction. Is there a better way to apply this grid of curves to the SubD?

Grid to SubD.gh (20.6 KB)

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I’m not sure, but maybe “flow along surface” or something…

Trying to find something … Grasshopper command similar to Rhino's Flow Along Surface

maybe “sporph” … Grasshopper command similar to Rhino's Flow Along Surface - #2 by s.wac


This is very interesting :face_with_monocle: :thinking: :thought_balloon:

Trying to find a way to convert the subD to surface…

Seems like I came across something similar recently, and might have to convert to mesh first idk…


I found another sort of work around that still doesn’t give me the result I want, but at least the grid is semi-regular this way. Converting this shape to a surface seems to be the major issue, but I’m not sure if you are even able to create a surface with this sort of form.

Yeah, I’ve yet to see an easy straight forward approach.

I think the subD might have to be converted to mesh first, or there can be a subD to Brep, that then might be converted to “surface” idk…

yeah that looks like the “mesh” workflow… :face_with_monocle: :thinking: :thought_balloon:

it’s pretty cool that’s even possible. But I’d like to figure out what to do with the “brep” method and convert it to surface and get it to “flow along surface” :sweat_smile:

When you try to deconstruct the SubD, the faces output is a bunch of untrimmed surfaces, do you think there’s any way to merge/join/weld these surfaces together to create a true surface? I’ve found some workflows using pufferfish plugins to make a SubD and surface, but none of them work with how complex this particular geometry is
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Yes, but it would have to be ‘trimmed’ in the middle where those profile holes are located.