Non-planar contouring of geometry

[User_aaa (User)]

Hi I’m needing help in generating the contour of a geometry that is not planer similar to the image attached below is there any way I might approach this? Any help is appreciated!

Geometry Non planer.3dm (255.3 KB)

[Ryan14 (Ryan)]

It would be very helpful if we could have a file to work off of.

[gordonleibowitz]

Looks like you want to extract the isocurves from the geometry, see attached. The tricky thing is getting the contours to be evenly spaced across different surfaces. You could try getting the UV dimensions of the surfaces and normalizing, or setting a unique Steps value for each surface and trying to get as close as possible.

non-planarcontour.gh (8.5 KB)

[DanielPiker]

The definitions I posted here might be useful

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