rs.SplitBrep Issue

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I have a problem with rs.SplitBrep in the file attached and the example code. Can anyone try this. Use the surface on the Brep layer as the “brep”.

import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs

filter = rs.filter.surface + rs.filter.polysurface
brep = rs.GetObject("Select brep to split", filter)
cutter = rs.GetObject("Select cutting brep", filter)
rs.SplitBrep ( brep, cutter )

Splitting works if I use Rhino Split command. Any idea why it doesn’t split with rs.SplitBrep?SplitBrepIssue.3dm (230.2 KB)

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Hi @spineribjoint1,

Yes, I can see that. Just curious - why such a tight model absolute tolerance (0.0001?

– Dale

3

I was just fiddling with the tolerance setting, thinking maybe it’s related to why the rs.SplitBrep fails.

Any idea how to make rs.SplitBrep work as Rhino Split command?

4

I just want to add that rs.TrimBrep suffers from the same issue as rs.SplitBrep. Again Rhino Trim command works.

5

Hi @spineribjoint1,

I’m not quite sure what’s going on. So I’ve logged an issue to look into this further.

https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-54220

– Dale

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I managed to get around it by doing the opposite of Rhino command ShrinkTrimmedSrf:

These are the steps:

  1. rs.DuplicateSurfaceBorder(brep) - Create an outline
  2. rs.RebuildSurface(brep) - Untrim the surface
  3. rs.ExtendSurface() - Extend all edges of the untrimmed surface
  4. Split the extended surface with the outline from the step 1

I basically recreated the surface with extended untrimmed basic surface. rs.SplitBrep works fine from that point on.