sample.gh (18.8 KB)
Hello!
I had a problem with this surface, I couldn’t find a way to give it a thickness properly. I tried converting into a mesh and Weaverbird plugin then give it a thickness but it produced undesirable corners etc. Any idea how to solve this? Thank you!
@Cem_Cetin
use this plugin flexibility
and Offset Geometry ** Component
; for offset PolySurfase or Surface , Mesh , SuBD… in Solid;
Try sending it through “Quad Remesh” (Mesh >> Triangulation >> Quad Remesh) before piping it into Weaverbird Thicken.
Not sure about the plugins. I don’t use them. Have you tried the Pufferfish offset component? I’m sure there is one…
So first of all to be exact, your ‘surface’ is not a surface. It is a polysurface.
One reason your offset result was bad may be because you used the Ruled Surface component which I don’t think is the right thing to do in this case. It creates a single surfaces for the openings but you want each of them to be a polysurface with four surfaces. Otherwise you can run into issues downstream.
offset_brep.gh (28.7 KB)
Thank you! This is exactly what I wanted. No, I haven’t tried the Pufferfish offset yet, but I will. Does that C# component do the same thing as the Pufferfish offset? If not, I wonder if there’s another way to achieve thickness, because I’m still a beginner and don’t know much yet. But I thought this would be easier with the native components.
There is no native component for offsets on polysurfaces or offsets of surfaces where the result is directly a closed polysurface. The script has been around for years…
About using native components… the script works in Grasshopper Rhino 8 and beyond. When you’re working with plugins and want to share the file with others, they also need the plugin.
