Hello everybody, I’m trying to intersect a plane and a mesh; then I’ll offset those curves until they intersect or something similar. I’m using GHPython, but the problem is, I cannot know how to loop through curves. My situation is as such:
As you see, I intersected the plane and the solid (lattice structure part is here), and I exploded them by CurvePoints in python. However, I need to access each of the curves separately. In the panel, I see that grasshopper has that information. How can I access them, so that I can loop through the curves? Then I will offset each curve as I told.
First, what you need to do, is flatten your latticeCurve input and set it to list access. If instead you want to deal with a tree as input, you need to convert the tree to a nested python list inside your script component. In order to accomplish this, take a look at these functions.
Now, to loop your latticeCurve list (when flattened beforehand), you simply need a for loop:
# Loops through the curves
for crv in latticeCurve:
print crv
# This loops through the list by index
for i in range(len(latticeCurve)):
print i
crv = latticeCurve[i]
# This loops through the list by index and item (curve per iteration)
for i, crv in enumerate(latticeCurves):
print i
print crv
For nested lists (or list of lists), you need to use nested for loops, to access the curves in the sublists:
curves_nested_list = [[crv00, crv01, crv02], [crv10, crv11, crv12], ..., [crvX0, crvX1, crvX2]]
for i in range(len(curves_nested_list)):
crvs_sublist = curves_nested_list[i]
for j in range(len(curves_nested_list)):
crv = curves_nested_list[i][j]
Thanks a lot pirateboy, but unfortunately I couldn’t figure out some parts. I used Flatten Tree function of Grasshopper, then I exploded the flattened curve, and the vertices were just fine, as seen in the figure. However, I cannot access them in GhPython. I tried to do “list access” like this, is that correct?
Grasshopper components and rhinoscriptsyntax do not always work the same way, output the same values or have the same features.
In the future, please refer to the developper docs, to check what functionality is provided by a function of the rhinoscriptsyntax.
In your case, rs.ExplodeCurves() only provides the GUIDs of the new segments. In comparison, the Explode Curve Grasshopper component provides the segments and the division vertices.
