[image] Hi! Newbie here! I am trying to make a custom hole pattern on a pre-defined shape. This main shape has holes in various forms on it. In the attached image, you can see a reference of what I am trying to accomplish. Yellow area is my main shape, white spots are holes, dashed lines are the…

Hole pattern.gh (8.7 KB) [hole pattern]

Thank you so much @mahanmotamedi1991 :slight_smile: This is very helpful. I have been trying to make a hole pattern on it, but so far I have not managed to have the holes follow the outlines and fill the rest of the surface as well. Do you have any tips on that?

I’m not sure if I understood well your question. The pores hers can be displaced and the offset lines (in your case the dashed lines) will move with them accordingly.

[image] Apologies for the confusion @mahanmotamedi1991 . I see that I was not very clear to start with. This illustration should help. Basically each green hole should follow the offset outlines. The inside orange area should be filled too with green holes even distanced to one another. So if I we…

Hole pattern_circle pores.gh (15.3 KB) Hope this help. I have no idea how you want to fill the orange space with circles. maybe you can use nesting tools for this goal.

Is it not related to this question? [image] "perfect" grid with nice boundary Grasshopper Hi, this is more of a open question/challenge… A lot of products, parts or even architecture have features where holes are arranged in some kind of grid. Think of venting holes, spe…

Thank you so much @mahanmotamedi1991 . It has helped so far. I tried with nesting but the result feels random and the inner holes don’t blend in nicely to the inner shapes. Maybe I need to take another approach to make this work. @laurent_delrieu That post you shared is very interesting and I learn…

Hole pattern on pre-defined shape with holes

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Hole pattern on pre-defined shape with holes

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