Hi
I would like that I could flip the direction of the curves of these connectors between the circles. Because of the different directions of the curves, it is hard to have a coherent numbering since the frames seems to be a bit all over the place no matter how you flip them. Is there a way to either flip all the planes into one coherent direction, or to flip all the middle curves of the connectors so that they all offset in one direction?
Thanks
Curve offset.gh (487.0 KB)
Hi, I removed the Mesh area and create text. I don’t know how to rotate the planes as I want without pufferfish so it needs to remain there.
Curve offset 2.gh (488.7 KB)
You can rotate the planes like this:
The planes and offsets look correct here:
The orientation of the planes can be verified by comparing them with surface normals.
If the dot product is about 1, it means the planes are more or less perpendicular to the surface.
If the offset doesn’t work, you might have to connect the planes to the offset component…
Curve offset 2 mrtn.gh (493.2 KB)
you can add a curve to the GuideCurve input to force alignment
Thanks for this, this is a bit better actually.
Here is the definition with no plugins
Curve offset 3.gh (479.5 KB)
Hi, when I open your file, this seems to happen. Its probably because I have Rhino 7 still, I probably have to upgrade for this to work, I tried to remake it with 7 but same result. Do you know what might cause curves to curves?
Curve offset 2 mrtn 7.gh (485.6 KB)
I just tried to open your file in Rhino 7.
It looks like this on my machine after I unplugged the plane inputs on the offset components:
Thank you so much! It works now
Hi, if I could just ask an additional question. When orienting the pieces on to the c-plane, some of the pieces seems to be orienting the wrong way. Its not just the text but the piece. Is there a way to orient all of the pieces the right way? As well as check that they are indeed the right way, since some are right and some aren’t.
Using the Text Entity component in Grasshopper Rhino 8, you can make use of the setting ‘Text reads forward when viewed from behind’
It’s in the Font settings of the annotation style.
Curve offset 2 Orient_mrtn.gh (501.6 KB)
Hi, sorry but can’t open due to rhino 7, but was just wondering, are you just flipping the text in the definition? Because if the text is flipped but not the shape its still a problematic because it will be difficult to see which is the right side, unless I number the edges.
No I’m not flipping anything. It’s a setting in Rhino 8 annotations.
In Rhino 7 you will have to flip the planes so from your point of view it looks correct.
Maybe this here could be a solution?
