Hi! I am looking into ways of creating a pipework looking like geometry that is controlled by a simple volume referenced from Rhino. The best I could come up with was to create smaller voxels, randomly reduce their count ( to not have so much of a grid looking system) and then simply pipe the edges…

Hi! Not the fastest, but might get you going if you adapt to your script: you’ll need mesh pipe component if you don’t have it [image] test of piping on one of the units (using mesh pipes as they’re faster) [image] [image] volumes_voids_pipes_help01.gh (44.1 KB) [edit] alternatively you migh…

Hi @René_Corella ! Thank you for your response. Will give it a go. I have a suspicion that #pufferfish can somehow be used to achieve the desired result as well.

As an indication/fun only … try the attached as well (works on a cubic like grid minus [an user option if voids > 0] random origin voids [of size vx,vy,vz]). Recursion_NodeInGridConnections_V1.gh (130.3 KB) It works (using recursion) solely dealing with indices thus is real-time fast (2ms or so) i…

BTW: The start of each poly is on some (randomly picked out of the 6) out side of the initial grid. But if the - optional - voids consume all the side pts … then there’s no start and nothing comes out. In fact several checks of that type must been implemented in order to achive(?) some(?) results(?)…

Second picture looks like pufferfish‘s discrete polyline https://www.food4rhino.com/app/pufferfish#lg=1&slide=9 [image] PufferFish 2.0 / Discrete polylines Pufferfish Tried some stuff. To be true I don’t really know what exactly you want from all the pictures…

Added an autoZoom option (rather handy I guess) and a classic Indexing Tree (poly Nodes indexing, that is [requires ~ a millisecond more, but no pain no gain]): Recursion_NodeInGridConnections_V1B.gh (129.1 KB)

Creating pipework looking structure within a volume

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tim.stark (Tim Stark) February 22, 2019, 4:57pm 7

Second picture looks like pufferfish‘s discrete polyline

https://www.food4rhino.com/app/pufferfish#lg=1&slide=9

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Creating pipework looking structure within a volume

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