Drop objects to surface / floor

Rhino Rhino for Windows
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Hey Iam looking for a method to drop objects on my c plane as they would lay on the floor.
i had a research before but all i found were too old rhino scripts which were not working in rhino 6

thanks for helping regards

david

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This one should work (Python script)

AlignBottomToZero.py (3.4 KB)

Note: if you do not preselect the objects, there are some command line choices - one is World or active CPlane Zero, the other is whether you want your objects to move as a group (maintaining their spatial relation) or individually (all land at 0). I expect you want CPlane and Individual in this case.

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If you mean seeing how a solid object will balance-
drop_example.gh (150.1 KB)
drop

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thanks for answering
i just tried it but i did not give the result i expected

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this is the original orientation - the things in red is the orientation that i need to correct so it will lay flat

do you think its pissible

thanks and regards david

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Ah, that is not the same thing… I don’t have a script for doing that - the GH solution above is probably the only good way.

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ah ok thank you anyway

i thought it might be not too complicated since all 3d slicer programs do that automatically

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Hi, one way might be to do a 2point orientation with a helper curve or surface. —Mark

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My ‘2d’ workaround is to make a Silhouette curve in that view and use that curve to snap to to make rotations and orient etc. Of course that is not the same at all as ‘gravity’, but it can work well enough for an image.

-Pascal

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Hey! I’ve made a new plugin called Drop, and it’s now available for download from the Package Manager. It might be useful to you—it lets you drop different types of geometry (points, surfaces, meshes, or groups) vertically onto a selected surface or mesh.

You can check out how it works here:

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It doesn’t take Blocks into selection. Also you can incorporate preselection feature please. This will be really helpful.

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Hi Owais! Thanks for the feedback, now it’s fixed and updated, please install the new version and let me know what you think!

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Thanks Mohammad! Really helpful plugin. Cheers from MW :wink:

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Yesss, Its working exactly like i wanted. Thank you very much. Even i tried creating this, but failed due to lack of coding skills.

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Hey, grabbed this on my home desktop and it works great. Much quicker than the grasshopper script I used previously.

I can’t seem to find it in the packagemanager on my work computer, is it limited to Rhino 8?

Thanks,