Orienting Polygon to be Parallel to Nearest edge

nolankim1 · June 23, 2021, 4:43pm

Hey guys,

I’m trying to get the triangles to be flat/parallel to the nearest edge of the square. As of now all triangles are flat along the x-axis, but am having trouble on figuring out how to expand this concept to adjust to each edge of the square.

Perhaps a potential method is pointing the triangles towards the square’s center then rotating it to the closest perpendicular axis?

triangle orientation.3dm (64.5 KB)
triangle orientation.gh (33.4 KB)

akilli · June 23, 2021, 5:51pm

Try two.

triangle orientation-c.gh (19.9 KB

Assumes everything is centered at (0,0,0)

nolankim1 · June 23, 2021, 6:13pm

Perfect, thanks for the help

ThomasE · June 23, 2021, 6:49pm

try with align plane.

triangle orientation_2.gh (30.6 KB)

nolankim1 · June 24, 2021, 2:17pm

Perfect. A very efficient way of doing this. Thank you!