Planar Meshes and Planar Beams from Face Offset Component

[DanielPiker]

In order for the beams to also be planar, you need your mesh to be conical.

About PQ Mesh, conjugate curvature network

…and here’s an example definition showing a way to generate such a conical planar quad mesh, its constant distance face-face offset, and the corresponding torsion free beam layout, on a given target surface: conical_demo.gh (52.0 KB) [image] In this example I’ve started with a simple regular flat square grid, and pulled it onto the surface. As you slowly slide up the strength of the planarization/conicalization constraints, it will naturally slide and rotate on the surface to find an orienta…