Grasshopper Patch Problem -

Grasshopper
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Hi there,

I have an issue with the Patch component (not ‘Patch for Rhino5’). What I am trying to achieve, is to patch up the singularity on some revolved forms. I’m talking 500+ of them, all of slightly different radius/form. So I’ve broken away my subsurface and generated isocurves across the surface to be patched over.

The problem I’m encountering seems to be at the point of generating/selecting the number of spans. I can get up to maybe 7/8 spans and then get a Object reference not set to an instance of an object error. But I just don’t quite understand how this is affecting it and why it’s restricting it - as a result the actual tolerance the patch is achieving is quite poor as well.

grasshopper_patch_problem.3dm (3.4 MB)
grasshopper_patch_problems.gh (28.5 KB)

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Hi @Jonathan_Hutchinson1 ,

For future posts, its always useful if you post an image along with your description in order to get a better sense of what the problem is.

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In my opinion, patching is not the best way to go here if you are looking for more accuracy. Here is my two cents worth of perhaps a longer but more precise definition in order to ‘cap’ the singularity on those revolved forms.

grasshopper_patch_problems_da.gh (50.5 KB)

Hope it helps.

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