Circles along a curve creating a bamboo mesh

[rohan.mishra341]

Hi all, I’m trying to re-create the bamboo loop element as the reference image. I’m currently facing the following problems.

1. While dividing multiple circles (curves) into points, how to select all the same points(as in point no 1, point no. 2, etc till the list end) all at once and interpolate.
2. How to define the plane of these interpolate curves to offset it.
3. How to control the size of each circle to increase and decrease the radius easily.
4. When using the simple pipe command to add thickness to the lines it makes the geometry very heavy when baked. Is there an alternative to it?
5. How to align the points on circles such that the interpolate curve doesnt intersect with each other.
   TIA

BAMBOO MESH.gh (25.2 KB)

[Quan_Li]

No need to install plugins.
R8 not required.
BAMBOO MESH Edited v0.gh (111.9 KB)

[Fabio_M]

adjusted the seam for each curve
BAMBOO MESH.gh (30.5 KB)

[Joseph_Oster]

Connecting points of different numbers

I’ve done models like this before and they can be weird, especially when the section curves are very different shapes and orientations as they are here. After playing with this awhile, I decided that using the Anemone loop to “align” sections doesn’t work very well so removed it. I also found and fixed an error in the purple group that makes sure section curves all have the same direction. Sometimes that requires flipping the plane of the guide curve (circle), which I added. [points connect…