Orient beams

Hi
How do i orient the beams in this structure so they follow the curvature of the structure?

Hi @user126,
if you extract the normal vector of the surface at the midpoint of every beam element you can then use this to input into the Z-Ori input of the Orientate Element component:

I am having a really hard time doing this. I can not manage to make a surface from my geometry.
Maybe someone will take a look at it?
Orientate beams.gh (124.2 KB)

You can do something similar like this. With meshes it is less accurate but gives similar results.

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