Smothed outer surface from a 3D set of points

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Hello guys,

Is there any way to find the outer surface of a point cloud in Grasshopper? I´ve been working with robotic manipulators and would like to find a nice way of representing workspaces as a closed surfaces, so that one could make sections and analyse them as wished.

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Until now, I have been creating spheres centered in those points (via Grasshopper) and working with multiple intersection planes to draw (manually) a rough outer surface from curves in different levels. :sweat_smile:

I would be happy to find a smarter way of accomplishing this task.

Thanks a lot!
OuterSurface_PointCloud.gh (3.8 KB)

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Alpha shape 3d ?
And no data in your file !!!

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Sorry. Laurent. I thought I had successfully internalised the .txt data to the .gh file. In any case, I send it attached.

Thanks for the tip about the Alpha shape! I am trying to learn it.

Workspace.txt (200.9 KB)

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Here the script with Alpha Shape 3d

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There are some holes but you have a mesh. Parallel version of Alpha Shape is faster.
point cloud alpha shape.gh (13.5 KB)
There are windows !! I dn’t know if it is my script or Delaunay 3d (from Mesh Edit)
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And with some random move on Z the mesh is closed

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point cloud alpha shape.gh (12.7 KB)

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Laurent,

That´s amazing! I really appreciate what you did here. Thanks! This helps me a lot!

Regards,

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Good stuff. BTW: I would suggest some auto calculate ability for the radius. Shown an internal BPA thingy for LIDAR pts and the likes.

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