Shaped form

Grasshopper
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Hello everybody. It is possible to make a shape for array of objects in grasshopper?

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Categorized.
Please assign your new messages to the appropriate category so the right people see it.

Thanks

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Excuse me. This is my first question here. I’ll try to figure it out.

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Yes.

Map Srf

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Thanks, I’ll try it.

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This uses the plugin Parakeet, which you ,might find useful.

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What is not obvious from the image I posted is how Map Srf (Map to Surface) works depends on how the surface was constructed.

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No worries.
Uncategorized message tend to be ignored.

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same goes for categorized ones :wink:

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Seems you want to treat your surface ‘differently’,
if it’ll continue to have four sides;
hence why not make it an EdgeSurface and go from there:

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@Joseph_Oster would have preferred to help you without plugins anyway :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Especially when they have no Grasshopper file/geometry attached.

I did.

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As I understand this solution works for a shape with four edges. If there are more edges?

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Isocurves are the key to Map To Surface, regardless of how many edges. As you can see from the animated .gif I posted, it doesn’t work with Boundary surface.

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Yes i see. And Isocurves can be only four pieces?

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No
 Isocurves are shaped by how a surface is constructed.

  • Boundary surfaces are “Trimmed Surfaces”, their isocurves are determined by the underlying “Untrimmed Surface”.

  • EdgeSrf produces “Untrimmed Surfaces” where isocurves conform to surface edges. “Untrimmed Surfaces” can be created other ways as well, such as Loft.