I’m kind of in the same boat of wanting to incorporate Grasshopper into a product design workflow. My issue is we do CAD elsewhere, and I guess even if I did it in in Rhino…the surfaces I’d like to apply a pattern or detail onto are often polysurfaces which don’t seem to play well in Grasshopper at all. At a basic level I can’t do something like equally subdivide a polysurface with points or something like that.
Yeah I can try rebuild that section of the part in Rhino as a single surface but that gets a bit clunky. I’m still trying to figure out a workflow for that. It’s fine for a simple object where I can extract a single surface and apply Grasshopper, but for polysurface geometry I haven’t figured out a clean workflow yet.
Here’s my original thread:
https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/creating-patterns-on-polysurfaces/107203/12