Change lines to make Multipipe work, but not too much

Grasshopper
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Hi Community,

I have some lines (many line-likes) that I want to turn into Multipipe

The problem is:

  1. angles are really sharp–I’m hoping to ‘multipipe’ them at thickness 2 but, that causes broken results
  2. I try get the mesh from the multipipe and smooth it, but it won’t fix the broken parts, just make the good parts more messy

Could you please give me some help?

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meshpipe.gh (14.1 KB)

Thanks very much :pray:t3:

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I would give a try to Cull Duplicates:

you can chose a Tolerance as point-distance on which to apply the rule, and also chose if you want to Cull all, leave just one, or even merge the affected points together into a single one

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If you internalize the geometry you might get some solution.

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Hi,

Under Polyline > Util you can try Reduce or Polyline Collapse. Please internalise the curve on your gh.file. (right click > internalise data). Cheers!

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Thanks for your help inno, Kossatz and Jakinta! I just updated the file with correct information, as my computer crash today.

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I also try to use the topologies tool, but it just creates new connections everywhere even when I make the tolerance very low

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It looks like it works with topologizer - if you make the tolerance high enough.

Where you have configurations like this:
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you want the tolerance to be high enough that it snaps together over that distance to make a new junction with less sharp angles:

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meshpipe.gh (16.0 KB)

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Thanks very much for your help Daniel! This got me unstuck from my project! :handshake:t3:

I ended up doing something similar (but more crude) with the t-junctions here. Topologizer’s output confused me at first––it seems to create more junctions when, in reality, plugging into Multipipe gives the correct fixed result

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Very cool component @DanielPiker ! Just added it to my toolbox. Thx!

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