Hi, I was quickly throwing something together and got an unexpected result and am not sure if it’s doing what it’s supposed to, and it’s just totally the wrong way to do it, or I am missing something.
Fairly simple stuff - a lofted surface between 2 “ribbed” ellipses - I decided to use GH as I wasn’t exactly sure how many and what the size of the ribs would be.
The way I thought to do it was to combine the circles of the ribs and the ellipse into a single polycurve with a region union and loft those - it works, but when I baked it, it realised it has split the “ribs”, so instead of 60, there are 307.
Also, for some reason I can’t use the “cap” function to cap it, but it works with boundary surfaces for the ends.
If I loft the “ribs” and ellipses seperately then union them after, it works as expected.
I am not sure if it’s a grasshopper issue, or a rhino issue with how it’s solving it, or if there is a step to “fix” it in grasshopper, or just not do it that way, because that’s the “wrong” way.
This might not be what you want, but it works very well! The loft is just one surface/face, cap holes works, 3 faces total including top and bottom - discovered by accident:
Thank you very much for taking the time to have a look at it Joseph.
I decided to internalize the ellipses as I i was tidying it up to post and they were just regular boring ellipses.
I wasn’t sure if it was something particular about the region union that caused the discontinuities or it’s just “the way that it is”.
Thank you for the version with the interpolated curves - not something that I had considered - I think it looks nicer than the original version, but the original is what the brief asked for.
