Hello,
I am trying to create a structure made of bundles of bend rods. I have already got the form but at the moment struggling with multiplying the supporting pillars from just 1 single rod to a full bundle of rods polar arrayed around the main rod. Any tips on how I can achieve this? (example picture attached)
Thank you so much in advance!
Not on my pc now but I think you can use a spiral on a curve. I may have this component in my Nautilus plugin.
On use more realistic tool like this one
If no twisting. Using aligned perpandicular frame could help.
One quick way would be to loft circles at perpendicular frames, take isocurves then pipe these:
There is no twisting just simply flow along the main rod. I will have a try on the plugin, thanks a lot for helping Laurent!
Oh wow Daniel this is great, exactly what I needed! Thank you so much!
If you need twisting this solutions seems to work. You just have to to the Math depending on the number of tube you want around. Helix/Spiral on curve is in Nautilus plugin.
And also you could look at this discussion that was never ended well.
Wow this is very neat and gave me the control over the twist. However, if I would like the bundle to have zero twist, my only option is to set the turn count as low as possible ?
Did you try 0 turns ? If it doesn’t work it is a bug. I will have to correct that for 0.9 version
It was not really a bug as I used a Rhinocommon method.
https://developer.rhino3d.com/api/rhinocommon/rhino.geometry.nurbscurve/createspiral
But I added a patch when pitch and turn count =0
It will be in next version
hello,
this is the very good solution. I have one query. In this script, this is the only one curve and it is applying bunding on that and the number of bundled pipe are same, but what if I want to divert my curve, for instance tree. I have no. of pipe at the base is 10 and at the top most level it became maybe 2. In between it maybe diverted and divided.
thank you for yourn time and considerations.
