Remove overlapping lines

Rhino Rhino for Windows
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H all, is there a way to remove or identify overlapping lines that are not the same length?

Thank you

Stylianos

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Thank you for this question! It´s a thing I am missing the whole time… SelDup just isn´t enough.

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Good question. Was looking for this, too, today.

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I was hoping that someone from the @theoutside or the McNeel team can help with my original question.

“is there a way to remove or identify overlapping lines that are not the same length?”

SelDup needs to be expanded…

Thank you and I appreciate your help.

Stylianos

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Hi Stylianos - there is no tool for this, but CurveBoolean can help in some cases to simplify a loop of overlapping curves.

-Pascal

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Hi @pascal, I appreciate your feedback. I will give it a try when applicable. Any chance a tool like this will be created? or the SelDup command will be expanded with options that will encompass this functionality?

Thank you

Stylianos

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Hi Stylianos - SelDup is not a complicated command - it finds exact duplicates in the data base, with a few refinements like ignoring curve direction. But a tolerance based dulicate finder, which is what you (and many others) are asking for, is a different ball of wax. It is on the list of things to do, I do not know how near the top… I believe one or more scripts are out there that do a pretty good job - possibly one by @Helvetosaur …?

-Pascal

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Thank you @pascal, I really appreciate your feed back.

Stylianos

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This is what I have-

These mimic more or less (mostly less) the ACAD function ‘Overkill’:
RhinoKillV0.py (5.4 KB)
RhinoKill2DV6.py (3.6 KB)

As far as selecting “near dupes” I have only something for curves:
SelNearDupCrvs.py (5.0 KB)

HTH…

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Thank you so much @Helvetosaur.

I really appreciate you sending these scripts over!!

Stylianos

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hey, i kow i’m 3 years late to the party lol, but for anyone who’s searchig this up, you could select everything (or just the lines you suspect are ovelapping) and run the command “Intersect” and place the new selection that you have from the itersectios in a new layer with a differet color. it helps you see where are the overlapping lines :slight_smile:
PS: if you have the display on print (so that you could see the print width) it would help immensely, because you can make the prit width of the intersectio layer 1.2 or somethig simillar, so that it pops more;)

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This script does more or less the same thing, FWIW.

DetectOverlaps.py (1.2 KB)