I have created a structural model using karamba in grasshopper. My aim is to find the total volume of all of my beams, columns and trusses, preferably using closed breps. I have tried baking the beam viewer component and this produced meshes and curves in rhino. I then tried converting these meshes into breps however these breps are open at each end, which means I cannot calculate the volume. I thought cap holes might work however I have not had any luck. Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks for your help! The changes you made were working perfectly, however I wanted to change my diagonal truss members into rectangular hollow sections (RHS). The current code does not like this change and return invalid breps. All other elements are working fine. I think it is because the RHS members have an interior and exterior rectangular prisms which is does not seem to handle. Do you have any ideas for how to get around this?
Thanks for your help, those solutions work great! I have another question for you, if you don’t mind. I am trying to cap the ends of acouple unique shapes for my ceiling system design. However, I cannot seem to turn these breps from open to closed. Something very funky is going on that is beyond my beginner level of skills. Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks
You are scaling your cross sections by a factor of 0.001. This produces needle like extrusions that can’t be capped. A scale factor of 0.002 produces closed breps but they are very tiny.
