Display Mesh Edges when Shaded/Rendered

[RHSWAF]

Is there a setting or plugin that will allow me to display mesh edges (and not individual face boundaries) in grasshopper, like they are displayed in rhino? (baked mesh box on right)

I am moving large machine tool designs in GH and it makes it difficult to visualize without edges.

thanks,

[HS_Kim]

With Pufferfish and Human plugins…

[RHSWAF]

Thank you for the help, the angle split mesh component is bit slow for the size of the mesh I am manipulating, I will keep looking.

[AndersDeleuran]

@RHSWAF

Is there a setting or plugin that will allow me to display mesh edges

You can define custom mesh rendering styles through scripting. I posted a simple example of rendering a flat-shaded, two-sided mesh with black edges here:

How to use the CustomPreview and CreateMaterial in ghpythonlib?

You can use the CustomDisplay class (example here) for rendering non-shaded stuff (e.g. curves and vectors). Or override DrawViewportMeshes and DrawViewportWires (with the GHPython component set to SDK mode) for rendering all sorts of things, like so: [2020-04-03 11_37_08-] 200401_GHPython_DrawViewportWires_02.gh (16.6 KB) This is just my first stab at implementing the latter method. As far as I call tell, one probably ought set the bounding box as well (Edit: For frustum culling, as explai…

That might get you started