I need help to make the surface fit the tubes below(serpentine pavilion 2009)

[Ghostlax (A)]

I found an equal discussion on the forum but I can’t get to the desired result.
I’ve only been with the program for 1 day so I’m still a novice.
I would greatly appreciate your help.

[pascal (Pascal Golay)]

Hello - try: Make the circles on the ground plane - then use ExtrudeCrv > To Boundary and select the roof surface as the target - does that get at what you need?

-Pascal

[Ghostlax (A)]

@pascal
I need the plane above to adapt to the height of each tube in order to achieve the shape of the pavilion.
In this post he explains it but I don’t get the result I want.

Rhino: flat surface to conform to pole elevations underneath

@nowokkaz Since you haven’t used GH it can be pretty daunting. But it’s powerful. To make this simple definition without doing much research you can double click on the canvas of grasshopper to bring up a bar to type in. Type “Curve”, “Area”, “Point” individually to bring up those components . Right click on curve and “set Multiple Curves” then select curves in your Rhino window (You may not have to duplicate the edge as I did). Left click & drag from the right side of a component to the lef…

[pascal (Pascal Golay)]

Hello - did you try extruding the shapes with the ToBoundary option?

You can also simply make them too long and use the roof to trim.

-Pascal

[wim (Wim Dekeyser)]

Hi -
I understand that you need it the other way around.
Could you please post your 3dm file so that we don’t have to guess about the input?
Are all tubes of the same length? If so, that would mean that you have a “terrain” surface that determines where those tubes start. That would then also mean that you could just use a copy of that terrain surface as the roof.
-wim