How to Prepare Polysurface for Fabrication?

[AAATTT (Attt)]

Hello,

I am trying to unroll a facade surface I made in Grasshopper - this produces many surfaces when baked. I wanted to unroll it so I tried to select the baked geometry and set as Brep or Srf component to connect to Unroll command, but it asks for Surface Geometry to Reference in Rhino. I tried to join all the surfaces into one polysurface but all the surfaces explode into little components (i guess exploded?). I just want this surface to be unrolled with my pattern rather than the pattern getting unrolled for fabrication. Please help!
2019-04-27-2nd Try.3dm (42.6 KB)
2019-04-27-2nd Try.gh (39.2 KB)

[Rickson]

If there is nothing in the .3DM file no need to post it.

What sort of Fabrication? you have 1600 surfaces with no relation to each other.

[AAATTT (Attt)]

I want to print it for laser cutting on a 3 mm thick paper/board. I know they don’t relate to each other - how can I make this surface one with those square openings?

[Rickson]

Pull your curves to the surface and bake both, unrollsrfUV w/ curves or flowalongsurf should work.

[HS_Kim]

There are many plugins that have unroll brep features including this.

OpenNest

2019-04-27-2nd Try_re.gh (49.8 KB)

[anon78208900]

You might get away with this given your purpose:

uses kangaroo stripper/unroller

2019-04-27-2nd Try.gh (53.4 KB)

unroll afterwards with the plug-ins or bake and use orient 3pt in rhino or something like that

Best

[AAATTT (Attt)]

Ok, so I think I need to rephrase my question: how can I subtract those square openings from the lofted surface? Because that’s the only way where all the pieces could stay together?

[anon78208900]

you mean you want to perforate the surface with the squares?

if that’s all you want then you can use trim solid - NOTE: it’ll take like a minute (I used the ‘unroll brep’ option from LunchBox just for fun at the end, I don’t think that’s how you’re unrolling)
2019-04-27-2nd Try (1).gh (44.9 KB)

[AAATTT (Attt)]

Thank you so much!