Sweep 2 rails

sweep2error.gh (22.4 KB)

Hi all, I’m trying to create a sweep with 2 rails and some seccions but it gets funky in the ends, loft works fine but doesn’t follow the rails that I want it to go. Wonder if someone has the answer or solution.

Thanks in advance.


Internalizing geometry inside a component, especially on a plugin component, makes it impossible to work around the missing plugin.

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sweep2error2.gh (16.4 KB)
Sorry about that, new one attached

You could just loft the curves with ‘Align sections’ checked.

Where did you get the rails?

Thanks, it doenst really work because I need it to follow the rail curves. The rails were dreated from scratch, last component was pufferfish pointtrimcurve and it was trimmed with the last two oposing seccions so that the rails stop there, otherwise two rails would meet on both ends.

Swp2 follows the rails better but Loft looks better to me. I’m not sure which one is “correct”? Click the green icon to “Only draw preview geometry for selected objects” and examine them one at a time. Top view isn’t the only way that matters.


sweep2_2024Oct21a.gh (15.8 KB)

Swp2 result depends on the rails you choose. White group has the original rails, purple group creates the blue rails.


sweep2_2024Oct21b.gh (32.5 KB)

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Here is a third set of rails (yellow curves and group):


sweep2_2024Oct21c.gh (40.9 KB)

Swp2 using original white rails: (front view)

Swp2 using blue rails:

Swp2 using yellow rails:

Loft:

Hulls are hard :bangbang:

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I don’t have pufferfish installed, so I’m not getting everything, but I wonder if Network Surface might work here? I’m not sure it would, but it might be worth trying.

So hard! Thats exactly what I meant, top view looks good but side view gets weird with sweep2, I dont know the reason, loft looks good for me both on top and side view but I really need it to be true to that outline created by the rails.

Thank you so much for the effort Joseph

There are many factors :bangbang: Vertical alignment of section curves might be the biggest one.

I would had thougth that loft would cause the same problem as sweep on the side view regarding to the alignment since it takes only the seccion curves to work