Hie everyone, I’m trying to loft metaballs curves, I found this way : [image] Metaballs to mesh Grasshopper Someone can help me, I’m trying to make a mesh from a metaball but i dont know how. Metaball.gh (8.3 KB) But there no way to make it work on my slow PC and I…

Flip Matrix before Loft. [flip_matrix]

check this file: METABALL EXPLORATION - ROUGHy.gh (32.8 KB) [image] Controlling the bridges in metaball geometry Grasshopper In this case you need to graft the planes and not the pipes. Grafting the pipes leaves you with a data structure per pipe. You want to have secti…

It works great ! What’s the use of flip matrix there ? Thanks a lot Joseph.

[image] clem.granger: What’s the use of flip matrix there ? Take a look at this: [image] Is there a better way to browse trees and their contents? Grasshopper [image] vuTreeList_2017_Jan19a.gh (20.0 KB) …

[image] clem.granger: What’s the use of flip matrix there ? Before Flip Matrix, each branch of the tree is a layer with one curve from each ball. After Flip Matrix, each branch of the tree has all the curves for one ball, as you need for Loft. [metaball_loft_2020Dec10a] metaball_loft_2020…

Thanks for the explication, i’ll take time to check your examples… I’ve got a new loft trouble, [Capture d’écran (29)_LI] Some are lofted “straigth” in green and some are “spinned” in red. Don’t khnow why ! metaball_loft_working01.gh (15.8 KB)

Invert the ‘Adj’ input of Loft Options or set it manually (‘Align sections’) without the Loft Options component. [metaball_loft_2020Dec10b] [metaball_loft_2020Dec10b2] The seams (start/end points) are not aligned. It’s also possible to mess up Loft by having loft curves going opposite direction…

Im dumb your great ! Thanks a lot Joseph, have a good day !

Hi @Joseph_Oster after metaballs(t), i want to make a loft with these polylines but i think the output list is stochastic and the loft is not possible. can you help me? asaa.gh (9.2 KB) [Capture]

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martinsiegrist (Martin Siegrist) January 3, 2024, 6:54am 11

Seen this topic yet: Controlling the bridges in metaball geometry - #4 by martinsiegrist

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