I have a reoccurring task, where I need to orient parts from one plane to another consistently for fabrication. Usually these wooden parts, so parallelly flat on at least two sides. The part outline shapes can be anything. Because the part outline shape can be anything, defining a grain-directioned…

Still added a small modification to get a bit more consistent results on vertically oriented parts. [kuva] [kuva] 20230913_Unified Bbox orientation_Response_01d.gh (146.5 KB)

Hi @Toni_Osterlund , How about this? Graph Space: [image] Model Space: [image] 20230913_Unified Bbox orientation_Response_01a.gh (74.1 KB)

Hi @michaelvollrath Thank you! I like the approach… The Fit line to get the “Dominant Center Line” and the per face directionalities is a clever method. It gives a lot of info on the part. Sort by Z works here to some degree, but I could expand on the sorting method to take the part dimensions in…

I managed to optimise the solution a bit (50%) by reducing geometry methods. The Deconstruct brep takes almost all computing time. This whole thing could easily be written as a small piece of code… [kuva] [kuva] 20230913_Unified Bbox orientation_Response_01c.gh (81.0 KB)

Unifying Bbox orientation

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Toni_Osterlund September 14, 2023, 6:16am 5

Still added a small modification to get a bit more consistent results on vertically oriented parts.

20230913_Unified Bbox orientation_Response_01d.gh (146.5 KB)

Automating prefab wood framing

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Unifying Bbox orientation

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