Hey, I am trying to offset (or scale?) different surfaces with a certain distance (approximately 0,06). I can imagine how to do this for a flat surface (top surface in attached image), however my model also contains ‘surfaces’ which are bent (basically formed from two surfaces as can be seen in the…

Too bad your surfaces are a flat list instead of branches by Z values. The white group below does that. [offset_2023Aug24b] offset_2023Aug24b.gh (71.1 KB) I didn’t know if these offsets are supposed to be holes in the original surfaces? Easily done. P.S. The overlapping pairs are single poly…

Sounds like you want the holy grail of CAD, to thicken polysurfaces. No magic that I know of. Two recent similar threads: [image] Triangular Blanket Extrusion Grasshopper Howdy Looking to CNC a parametric wall out of birch using triangles as a blanketed form. [exampl…

Thanks for the reply! Not really trying to thicken the brep. What I am trying to do is to scale down the brep it in its own plane(s) with the final difference between the original and scaled breps being a width of 0.06. The component ‘‘offset curve on surface’’ comes very close to what I want to a…

It’s a little more obvious looking at your file, which I didn’t do until now… This doesn’t address your issue, it’s just a suggestion for treating “faces” as curves. [offset_2023Aug24a] offset_2023Aug24a.gh (49.9 KB)

This is heavily relying on Brep.CreateOffsetBrep… The first row of components is just sorting your surfaces by row and two by two on odd rows… I tried to split the contour and assign the edges to each surface then offset them separately on each subface but the result didn’t join. [image] Offset…

Would it be taking the long way around if from this point you: filter out the ones that are closest to each other, under a certain dim. (Based on dist between centers) 2.Make groups of 2 by closest mid point for filtered Get the furhest 2 lines from midpoint → loft OR After groups of 2, join th…

I was looking at something else in this code I posted - a little mystery that I might comment on later if I figure it out. Hint: Why does Scale NU require only one value for ‘X’ instead of the two values I was using, +X and -X? But what got my attention was the slow profiler time on OffsetS (Offse…

Hello magicteddy, （Rainbow display）what kind of plugin is this?

[image] Ward: （Rainbow display）what kind of plugin is this? Looks very similar to a pair of clusters I wrote that were based on a cluster called ‘Colorful’ from @HS_Kim . [image] Interpolate curve through points in data tree Grasshopper In addition to temporary tex…

Great ! I’ll lokk at your code later. You did succeed in joining everything into one offset, where I had gaps with a very similar method. And yes, OffsetOnSrf is one of the slowest things I’ve ever encountered. Note that it can sometimes be faster to flip the curve and offset with a positive distan…

Offsetting surfaces

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Joseph_Oster August 24, 2023, 2:32pm 2

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Offsetting surfaces

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