Slots inside region

[laurent_delrieu]

Here a little script that recreate a design from Heath Satow @heath

Need Nautilus plugin and Clipper. I still use Clipper 1. Nautilus now mainly used Clipper 2 library.

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This tools takes

• A list of closed curves representing regions.Here it is text.
• A Curve is used for the slots direction
• A slot size
• Number of curves around the guide curve
  
  

Make slots inside regions.gh (19.3 KB)

Then some offsets. At the moment not easy to use Rhino offset as in Rhinocommon it is not possible to offset an open curve to generate a closed curve (Both sides + cap). So everything is still in Polyline.

Dotted version, still buggy and not very fast

Make slots inside regions V2.gh (32.4 KB)

[heath]

Awesome! Here’s another screen shot showing that the lines cut all the way through. It’s a slow process to cut that much fine detail, but it’s a neat effect.