Hello,
Is there any way to reference sub-objects from rhino into grasshopper by clicking?
For any objects you just click righ button on a specific container in gh and reference objects from rhino by clicking one or multiple. What if i want to directly reference subobject such as face of a solid.
I achieved this only by referencing solid and then deconstructing and listing specific item for a face, but it is not practial for my purpose.
Thank you
Hi,
For example let’s assume you have a solid object “Box” in Rhino to get its sub-object, explode it in Rhino. Now you will get the individual face of it. So now you can reference it using “Surface Parameter” in grasshopper.
Cheers,
BVR
That is more of a workaround than solution. Once you explode something there is no turning back.
I need to click faces which are formwork of on a concrete solid and use those faces to get areas and write it as a key/value into parent object - concrete solid
This is not possible at the moment. You can reference edges using the Curve parameter (although I note not from Extrusions, only from Breps), but not faces using the surface parameter.
thanks for the reply. if it appeared im gh2 i think there could be use of it. importantly referencing subobjects could somehow keep information about the parent object.
for example if you have pile modelled as a cylindrical solid i want to click its stitching edge , take its length and tell (add attrubute) to parent object that this length is representative length for the element for schedule otherwise you can only get volume which is not enough for pricing of piles…
but this whole bim functionality is for another topic