Rhino patch tool

Help with patch for topography Rhino Rhino for Windows. Basically an input I found on a youtube tutorial Here is the file, much appreciated patch input. But LOTS of duplicate elements. Also the white lines I made because I thought I had to close the curves. And then, after having the mesh, convert it to a solid.

What do you mean rebuilding the curves? Or is there a shorter way? Once the mesh is made, one way to make a printatable object is to OffsetMesh with the Solid option checked. Note you cannot offset too far or the mesh will have self intersections.

It does nothing after MeshPatch Maybe the defaults from my version are different from yours. Hello - at this point, as shown in your images, run SelPt to select the point objects and then.

I made it. And interface feels very easy. There is command called RebuildCrv…. No RebuildCrv command. There is Rebuild which rebuilds with uniform knot spacing, and RebuildCrvNonUniform which rebuilds with knots closer in areas with larger curvature. I doubt that the file will help you understand how to use the surface. When you start the Patch command, you do not select the surface. You select it later, when the Patch window appears - it is one of the options in the window. The resulting patch takes the structure of the starting surface, the number of spans in the dialog is ignored,.

This can also be used by using a plane as a starting surface - if the starting surface is a planar degree 1 by 1 surface or a plane, the size and orientation of the starting surface is used with the number spans set in the dialog. Thus it is possible even to remake the closed objects. One trick that may be useful: If you want to make the Patch surface better approximate a curve, make multiple copies of the curve all at the same place.

When the Patch process asks you to select the curves to be approximated, select all of the copies. If you do this for all the various curves, then the multiple copies trick probably does nothing. As for starting surface, and whether it is a 1x1 plane … gee whiz, McNeel could say something about this in the documentation. We continue to focus on the fact that designs are only useful once they are built and in the hands of consumers. With the cost of digital fabrication and 3D printing technology dropping quickly, more and more designers now have direct access to 3D digital fabrication equipment.

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