SubD MultiPipe... Request

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I bought T-Splines V4 back around 2015/16 - I dug it out last year, sent Autodesk an email, they gave me all my legacy login details so that I could use it again with Rhino 5. (Rhino 5 on Win11 (On a PC that is too old to have Win 11 on it (Still works really well..)))

Rhino 7 SuD MultiPipe:

Rhino 5 with T-Splines license (which still works on Win11):

Please may I request that you add some more functionality to the MultiPipe command?

You can actually go back into the Pipe command at a later time and amend it, it’s not a one-hit-wonder…

You can:

  • Rotate the joints

  • Move the joints along the curve

  • Change the radius of each joint

  • Add joints at a point

  • Change the configuration from square/open/bendy/spike/diamond

  • Many other helpful features that I haven’t listed.

Please forgive me if this has been updated in Rhino 8… Or if it’s in the WIP for 9?

Cheers,

Andy

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You should try 9 WIP. The gumball can do more than in Rhino 7.

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On the MultiPipe? I can’t use the WIP as I don’t have Rhino 8 - I installed it but never used it. Was pretty active on Serengeti at one point, especially when I had a Mac too, but I took a few years off doing something else and was hardly sat in front of a computer.

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Subd in general…

I’ve also used T-Splines for years and in the beginning was missing some options in Rhino 8

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The SubD in Rhino 7 is sufficient, but the pipe and multipipe is pretty basic… It was a request for this funtionality, specifically in V9 which I’ll buy later this year/next year when it launches.

I went from 4-5 and 5-7 and was working in a different field for a few years so didn’t bother with 8.

Does WIP 9 have the kind of functionality on the SubD pipe command shown in the V5 T-Splines screenshot I posted?

Cheers,

Abdy

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No, but I think you could do most of this with native Rhino commands. Soft transform was also improved.

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You’d better to call @DanielPiker the master of the Multipipe.
This is somehow possible in Grasshopper but not yet in Rhino.

I agree 100% with you that this is a very welcome features and should be implemented.

Many Jewelrs, and designers, would get big benefit.

Daniel, any ETA?

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If I did any of this commecially I’d have to write DP royalty cheques for pretty much half of the stuff I create for fun in GH :sweat_smile: .

I recently met a guy who’s a software engineer for Autodesk here in the UK. Our young daughters roller skate with one another - he said that Autodesk basically buy software and then F it up :joy:

Fingers crossed for V9 :folded_hands:

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I don’t think I could have done this project back in 2014-15 without T-Splines and being able to revisit the pipe function. I could tweak, rotate and have a look at the model and come back to it days later and still move stuff and make changes from client feedback.

I’m not sure I could do it today with Rhino 7. As I said in an earlier post, I’m holding out for 9 as I’ve been out of the saddle working in another field over the past few years.

This was my first ever SubD model so not so straight forward. I tend to get neck deep into projects which are exponential learning curves…

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