[cage] I want cage edit command that can adapt to any form automatically. As pic show, it is very hard to edit the form freely after bending. Any idea? Grasshopper can do that? Thank you!

Hello- no, cages must start as boxes before being deformed. You can use a surface or a curve as a control object in CageEdit however. -Pascal

thank you! This information is very useful for me!

Is there any chance to have cages with controlpoints x,y,z that do not start as a box, or that can be deformed before and without applying the deformations to the child? I know that is possible with surfaces as cage, but they have only U and V points. I suspect this is fundamentally not possible, …

Have you seen this? [image] Add Mesh Morphing recipe to Rhino? SubD Something like this? This is with the mesh cage morph component which I shared a version of here . I’d like to make this into a Rhino command too (once I’m done with the multipipe, fuse and wra…

No, I did not see this before. And Yes! Yes! Yes!, I want this! I am not a GrassHopper user, although I know I should have learned to use GH from the moment “Explicit Historie” was launched. Will this GH example work in Rhino7, or become a Rhino Command soon? I will look if I can get it to work,…

Yes, this example will work in GH in Rhino 6 or 7. The aim is to also turn this into a Rhino command, though I can’t promise how soon. In the meantime, I think it should also be possible to use some of Steve’s GhPlayer magic to make the Grasshopper file work like a Rhino command, where you don’t a…

Here’s a first go at this. cageMorphPlayer.gh (18.1 KB) You can use the ‘GrasshopperPlayer’ command to start it without the Grasshopper interface. If you want to make it into a button, you can make a macro with these lines -GrasshopperPlayer filepath\cageMorphPlayer.gh (replacing filepath with …

Not behind my computer now, but I will test ASAP.

[image] pascal: Hello- no, cages must start as boxes before being deformed. You can use a surface or a curve as a control object in CageEdit however. A cage can be created and then deformed before being used as a control object. [image] PodoTools: Is there any chance to have cages with c…

[image] davidcockey: A cage can be created and then deformed before being used as a control object. Hi David - sure, but you’ll find that the first edit you make on the cage assumes that it started out as a box. -Pascal

Cage edit command that can adapt to any form automatically

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DanielPiker (Daniel Piker) May 29, 2020, 7:55am 5

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