I am sorry if I sound stupid, but I keep failing on doing a square beam along a curve. I have for two years been doing them by hand in Rhino; but would like to know if at the END of a CURVE, I can create a section rectangle (perpendicular to the endpoint of the curve) and lowering it down; then making a loft or sweep along the curve, something like this drawing…
Thank you for your help!
Yes, definitely.
God Bless you Joseph! Thank you for your help, will now try to find the parameters; because I don’t know the icons all well.
Thank you
Vikthor, thank you very much for your help
I am sorry for my ignorance, but I can manipulate the width and size of the rectangle??
I don’t know how to make the B in the construct domain (-x), nor adding (40ms) to the Sweep1
You can use two sliders instead of only one. One for the X dimension of the rectangle and another for the ‘A’ and ‘B’ inputs to Construct Domain that determines the Y dimension. They can both be Real (Floating Point) instead of Integer.
Right-click on the ‘B’ input and select ‘Expression’, then enter “-x”.
What do you mean by “adding (40ms) to the Sweep1”?
“40ms” it only marks the runtime
right click on B
By the way, you can have an expression on both ‘A’ and ‘B’ inputs; ‘A’ is “-x/2” and ‘B’ is “x/2”. That way, the Y dimension overall will be the same as the slider value instead of double it.
Its working great! One more question, how do I turn it into a square section? I am trying with the expression but cannot seem to do it.
Does it affect if the expression is not x, -x, R … but … x, -x, y
I cannot find the expression with the R
Thanks Vikthor and Joseph (Gracias Vikthor; ya vi que eres Colombiano; muchos saludos)
You’ll get a better answer if you post the code you have. Expressions on inputs/outputs must always use “x” to refer to the value, regardless of the label (‘A’ or ‘B’). If you’ve done it as I suggested, then using a single slider for both X and Y will result in a square.
P.S. The Expression component with the ‘R’ output is under ‘Maths | Script’.
P.P.S. You could replace the Expression component with another Construct Domain component…
Here. This is what I am trying to do… But I cannot seem to get a hold on it. Some pipes will be right angled, and some will be curved as seen here. But I want the intersections to come out smoothly, as a door frame would do, instead of rotating and not resulting in a true stable frame.
is what @Joseph_Oster has been explaining
How to set on multiple curves?
Did you find out how to do it?
