Need optimization for very heavy (shower)hose

Holo makes a very important point. In real life armored coverings over flexible hoses are made of stuff which is much less flexible than the hose. It might rely on geometric displacement of the overlap between turns (for rigid spiral wrap), elastic deformation (materials harder and tougher than the hose but still deformable) or even complex shifting of individual strands of braided wire. A truly realistic depiction of this behavior would need to duplicate the construction and properties of the real thing, or at least use some pretty sophisticated Rhino techniques (which may not even exist) to fake it. My first guess is that it won’t be possible to do it in such a way that you can then drape your fully-modelled armored hose as desired after you’ve modeled it. Maybe some additional thinking here will be able to come up with a practical way to put the armor on after the hose routing has been established and assuming you don’t want to adjust it after it’s armored.

Of course, if it was easy the McNeel guys would program it into Rhino as a command, :smiley: