Trying to layout and boolean cutters/prongs into solid curved surfaces.
I find good pave tools in expensive plugin programs (crossgems etc) but I only am in need of the pave function.
Any suggestions for doing within Rhino 7/8? Plugin?
Have not used Grasshopper but will learn if pave works in this. Pave plugin for this?
Thanks!
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Sounds like it’s quite a simple thing to do in rhino. But it to help if you had some picture reference
Example - Trying to lay these multiple stones onto surface
When I try to use “Orient on Surface” Rhino only allows me to pick a single sub d face or single poly face to orient to. Is it possible for it to apply to larger area or will rhino work only one single surface orientation at a time?
You can automate that in Grasshopper
Thank you Adel. Do you have any suggestions for a tutorial on on this?
Circle packing is what you look for
here’s a basic definition to get you started.
the basic idea is that you need to pass the target object to a deconstruct battery so that you get a list of faces. you could cull the list of faces in some way to control which faces receive the object.
alternatively, you can explode your geometry and select the faces you need to receive your objects and pass that to a surface battery
lastly, you will be able to control the the position of the object on the surface with the UV parameter on the OrientSrf battery. by default is (0.5, 0.5)
you will find a ton of tutorials online.
Sorry this is not a good start, there’s nothing helpfull with this definition you could do directly with rhino
not saying you couldn’t do it in rhino, i’m saying you could automate what you can manually do in rhino