Hi there,
since on Grasshopper1 sweep on one rail surface doesn’t work with all closed curves, (and it will never be fixed) I tried with G2 where it works……but then there is no offset surface component (while in G1 there is Pufferfish), so I’m stuck…
any advice?
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I found out that Flexibility has a sweep component that works!!!
still deeply shocked to see G2 not “finished”… preferences menu is missing.. no plugins…
What curves doesn’t it work with? Grasshopper 1 development is still going on, so there’s a better chance of getting the developers to notice the issue, if you at least share a concrete example of what doesn’t work.
It’s not really shocking given that it’s still in alpha and only meant for testing.
It’s common knowledge that Sweeps and Lofts don’t work too well in Grasshopper. Years bad I read in a post that it’s because Grasshopper actually uses very old versions of those commands. You sometimes have to find a work-around - Like achieving the same result with different components. Or simplifying the geometry then combining it after the Sweep/Loft. And maybe performing the operation in RhinoCommon via an in-line script instead of using the Grasshopper component… this I’m not too sure of though.
It is a real snag for new users: when they test out a simple sweep in the Rhino modeling space having it work 100% of the time. Then wasting hours and hours thinking they’ve done something wrong in Grasshopper when the same operation fails to work in their script. When really it’s more a matter of comparing Rhino 8’s Sweep to whatever Rhino 2? had.