Creating a Square Pipe

Grasshopper
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Hi guys! I wonder if anyone could help me with this.

I have been trying to create a square pipe for the script that I am going to upload. However, some of the square pipe does not align perfectly with the line segments created. In addition, some of the lines seem to be duplicates and the remove duplicate command is not allowing me to remove these overlapping lines. If anyone could help me with this I would be forever thankful!

Square Pipe
Square Pipe571Ă—653 87 KB

Square Pipe 2
Square Pipe 21185Ă—678 109 KB

Script
Script1725Ă—579 83 KB

Linear Segments Script.gh (17.1 KB)

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It may be not what you want, anyway you can try this if you want…
Try to change the size of the frame you want and click the Data Dam(Red Group).

Canvas at 04;52;33
Canvas at 04;52;331463Ă—683 200 KB

3D Square Grid Frames_re.gh (16.9 KB)

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This is not the solution but a trick to create square pipe by using bounding box

image
image1443Ă—751 286 KB

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In case of regular cube(not distorted), if you choose the end cap type of pipe with “Round” and boolean union the result, then actually it could be a simple framing trick. :smiley:

Canvas at 05;40;22
Canvas at 05;40;221249Ă—387 190 KB

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Thank you so much! This is really helpful!

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Thank youuuu! I will try this and see if it works!

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You can use mesh to create 3d frames , work faster

3d frames.gh (14.8 KB)

image
image1561Ă—752 429 KB

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Thank you so much! The issue that I am having is that I want to apply this square pipe grid to a massing that I am shaping on my own, so the end product would not be a box. I tried the bounding box method and it worked perfectly! The only issue that I am having now is the duplicate lines that are overlapping each other in the script I posted in the beginning… but thank you so much for your help!

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It’s better if you post your script to get help

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Here you go:

Linear Segments Script.gh (17.6 KB)

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You forgot to internalize data

image
image577Ă—656 33.5 KB

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If you want different spaces between lines in all directions try this.

3d grid_2.gh (16.5 KB)

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I did that but I still get the overlapping lines on the perimeter for some reason… Instead of just getting one line for the perimeter. Thank you for helping me anyways!

Overlap1
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Here in the picture you can see the multiple overlapping lines that are in the perimeter and each length starts at the corner and ends where the horizontal curve cuts it.

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Thank you so much!