I’ve spent the better half of a day trying to indent a pattern onto an object with zero success. I assumed it would be as simple as pipe the linework that I’ve flowed along an object and (skipping a few steps) boolean difference the piped pattern to the object, but that keeps either freezing Rhino …

It’s a bit of work but I’d say you need to sort out exactly one repeat of the pattern in 2d and pipe and join that up cleanly in 2d including the ‘ragged’ edge miters that you need to join to the next repeat - [image] Get that set up and flow it to the target - there is a chance it will all work o…

Boolean Difference troubles

Rhino Rhino for Windows

gustojunk (Gustavo Fontana) December 21, 2019, 12:52am 13

Would some like like fattened (plus SubD of the result) work for your needs?

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