Assume I have a component requiring an point input, P0. Now based on the input point P0, I have create a solid square as the output of this component. How could I choose a vertex point on this square as input parameter for my grasshopper component again? I know I can bake the grasshopper component, so I can use one vertex point on the square as input parameter for my grasshopper component again. This is only a simple example, similarly how could I use the edge of the square as input parameter for a component without baking a component, or at least I can choose the two vertex points on the square as input parameter for a grasshopper component without baking it.
Do I have to bake the grasshopper component so I can use the vertex point as input parameter again?
Attached is the image showing the brep I have created, now I want to use the two points (marked as red circle) as reference. It can be also other two or three points.
no, .gh file needs my component which is under dev. My problem is just how to use the two points on the brep which is output of my component without baking.
John
If you’re building this brep with a component that you have coded, you should be able to get these vertices with the code in your component (get Brep.Vertices, sort accordingly, and take the first or last 2).
thank your guys for the response. This is not what I intend to do. When you have created a solid box, user should be able to pick the two or three vertex and use them as the input parameter to the next component. I don’t know which two, three or four vertex user want, but should be any vertex, but I know what user want to do based on the vertex selection. I want to have similar point component under “geometry” which you can set to the vertex from a unbacked grasshopper entity’s vertex.
After I use “Deconstruct Brep”, could I use a dialog to list all the edges in my codes and let user choose the right one? I don’t want to bake it as it will lose the parametric feature of the modeling.
Look like the entities created inside grasshopper are not selectable, that’s the whole reason.
