Mesh with holes from polylines in rhinowip to C#

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Hi,

In rhino wip I see function that allows to create mesh with holes from closed polyline.

Is there an example from .NET developers?
Before I was using Triangle.NET, but it worked only in 2D.

Thanks

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What command are you using to do this?

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MeshPatch. I asks to select boundary and holes.

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Ah but it not always works with concave polylines:

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Hi @Petras_Vestartas,

The functionality behind the MeshPatch command is not exposed in any of our SDKs.

– Dale

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Hi,

So is there any command, that can create mesh with holes?

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MeshPatch, but there is no Grashopper, or RhinoCommon function just rhino command

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I was happy to find there is a Mesh.CreatePatch method exposed now. Although I’m not sure why the outerBoundary parameter needs to be a Polyline if the innerBoundaryCurves can be Curves.

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Looks like it still wants Polylines even though type is curve.
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I can confirm it does work with a Curve. It appears it does its own internal conversion to a Polyline.

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Probably those conversions are based on your outer polyline for the best kind of triangulation, hence why the outside needs polyline explicitly?

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If it’s of any use, I’m attaching the C# component shown in the image above. It should work with Data Trees and is multi-threaded as well (written for creating lots of building footprints at once). However, the Boundary Surfaces component is pretty damn fast now that it’s multi-threaded.

MeshPatch.gh (6.9 KB)

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Ok so finally this one is shared between .NET I do not need to use Triangle.NET anymore.

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So, this method is only expose for Rhino 6?

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Yes it is