I am trying to reproduce the UnrollSrf(Label=Yes) command in rhino using the IronPython component in grasshopper.
I am using the functions of Rhino.Geometry.Unroller and dealing with BREP, my code works fine in most parts except one.
For example, I want to unroll a cube. A cube has 12 edges and I put a text dot at the center of each edge using “AddFollowingGeometry(TextDot)”. After unrolling, the unrolled BREPs should have altogether 24 edges, since a cube becomes 6 squares. However, the PerformUnroll function only return 12 text dot instead of 24. Does anyone know why the Text Dot does not follow all edges? Since one edge is split to 2
The _UnrollSrf command with (Label=Yes) produces exactly the output you show in your screenshot, so it looks to me like you succeeded in replicating it?
The command only doubles up the edges, if you choose Explode=Yes, in your case the edges are still glued together, counting as one
Sorry for misrepresenting my statement. My screenshot is the _UnrollSrf’s result not what I replicate. What I replicate, I only have 12 edges with labels for the unrolled surfaces instead of 24. I am not sure why. For example, The picture has 2 edges labeled “2”. When I try to replicate this using “AddFollowingGeometry(TextDot), the text dot only shows up on 1 edge instead of 2.
I add TextDot at the center of edge 2 before unrolling. After unrolling, the textdot should be appear at two places. Howerver, only 1 new textdot is generated.
I think this is expected behaviour. The unroller -probably- checks the closest face for the dot and unrolls it alongside this face.
I’m not able to test it but I’d try this:
For each 3D edge create a circle perpendicular to an edge at the midpoint. The radius can probably be as small as double the file tolerance.
Intersect this circle with the brep and add the dots to the found intersection points.
Typically each internal edge will get 2 dots, each on another face.
After unrolling -where I expect the dots to unroll as expected- you can pull them to the closest edge but it probably is unneeded for your purpose.
I only have one problem that is I am not quite sure how to use grasshopper script to do the intersection between a circel and a brep. Do you have an suggestion on how to do that since the rhinno.geometry.intersction api does not have a cricelbrep intersection function.
You can convert your circle to a NurbsCurve and use Intersection.CurveBrep
# circle and brep defined elsewhere
bSuccess, crvArrOverlap, ptArrIntersections = Rhino.Geometry.Intersect.Intersection.CurveBrep(circle.ToNurbsCurve(), brep, sc.doc.ModelAbsoluteTolerance)
I found that for the cube. Only four edge’s middle point circle with radius as 4*tol can return non-empty ptArrIntersections. All the intersect function return bSucess=true. Do you knows why is that?
