Hi Andy,

yeah, I changed this in 0.6. Many components in <=0.5 were outputting
surfaces with kinks, which is a bad idea since there are many
functions in Rhino that do not like those.
I changed all these components to output breps if necessary (but
single surfaces if possible) in an effort to reduce the number of SDK
related crashes.

--
David Rutten
[email protected]
Robert McNeel & Associates


On Mar 25, 4:12 pm, Rchitekt <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi David,
> Thanks for the help.  Straight Sections or Aligning Section curves
> doesn't seem to work.  It still returns an open Brep.  However,
> rebuilding the loft does work.  So, I can use that for now.  But, it
> didn't seem to do this in the last version (0.5).  This same setup
> returned a untrimmed surface in version (0.5).  I know the Loft
> component was kind of re-built in version 0.6, but it would be great
> if we could choose the output type.  Or a MergeSrf would work as
> well.  Thanks again.
> -Andy
>
> On Mar 25, 12:10 am, David Rutten <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Andy,
>
> > it's a Brep because Loft will sometimes create a Brep, depending on
> > input curves and settings. If you enable Straight-Sections for example
> > or if the seams of closed input curves do not match up.
>
> > I suppose I'll have to add some sort of MergeSrf component to remedy
> > this. What if you rebuild/refit your loft, do you get single surfaces
> > then?
>
> > --
> > David Rutten
> > [email protected]
> > Robert McNeel & Associates
>
> > On Mar 25, 4:49 am, Rchitekt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Hey David,
> > > Is there a reason that the output from a Loft component is a Brep?
> > > Basically, I have some section curves that I'm lofting together, and
> > > then I'd like to subdivide that surface by some interval.  However,
> > > when I feed the output of the lofted surface into a generic surface
> > > parameter... it turns red.  When I hover over the output from the Loft
> > > component, it says "Open Brep" (which is why it's turning the surface
> > > parameter red).  The original curves that form the loft were created
> > > through volatile data inheritance.  The reason I bring that up, is
> > > that I have another example, where I reference in 2 curves and then
> > > feed those into a loft and the output reads "Untrimmed Surface".  So,
> > > why would the loft output a surface with referenced geometry, but a
> > > brep with volatile data inheritance?  I can't subdivide the Brep, so
> > > is there a way to convert the open Brep back into a surface?  Or is
> > > this a bug?
> > > Thanks,
> > > Andy

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