Hi Lars, it seems that for something as complicated as this (i.e. overlapping trimming regions) you need something like CurveBoolean. You might be able to accomplish it anyway using region trims, but the underlying logic will be quite intricate.
-- David Rutten [email protected] Robert McNeel & Associates On Jan 19, 2:23 pm, klint <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you Visose, > didn't realize that a circle was a region.. > This is a much nicer solution. > > Still confused about the order of the earlier intersection points > though.. > > Thought I'd do a GH definition that could do this > -http://www.3d-meier.de/Plugins/Saeule/Saeulenkontur.html- for a > practice. > > /Lars > > On 19 Jan, 13:44, visose <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The latest (or previous) release include some trim > > components:http://grasshopper3d.googlegroups.com/web/trimregion.jpg > > You can use directly the circles, no need to create arcs. > > > On Jan 19, 12:08 pm, klint <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, trying to create this curve from one big circle and a number of > > > smaller ones. > > > >http://screencast.com/t/bGz2nf5eLV > > > > From what I understand from other posts there's no "trim" component, > > > but you'd need to find intersections and build it from there. > > > As you can see in the next image I've drawn arcs between the > > > intersection points from the big and the smaller circles. > > > >http://screencast.com/t/JzjV4iNzBu > > > > Now it's time to connect the arcs. But I'm having a hard time doing > > > this because the intersection points comes in the order > > > 0,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,1 > > > > Am I doing something wrong, or should I just use some other technique? > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/grasshopper3d/web/contour.ghx > > > > /Lars
