Well, I'm not 100% sure why it works, but I recreated your organization and only struggled to realize that the orientation of the shingle is critical to make it work. Now I can clad all sorts of shapes with the base work done!
Thank you, visose. You have saved me precious time. I'll keep an eye on this forum to watch the orient command grow into perfection. Until then, thanks to all that are bettering this important tool. Peace, Jason On Nov 8, 5:08 pm, visose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think that either the orient component is broken in some cases or > it's really weird to use. I'm going to go with the first option. > There's probably a better way of doing it, but if its planar surfaces > what you want to orient, try > this:http://grasshopper3d.googlegroups.com/web/orient_torus.jpg > It recreates the surface inside grasshopper already in the frame, so > it doesn't have to reorient geometry > > On Nov 8, 10:57 pm, jvannest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've simplified the problem to just 4 grasshopper components. An image > > (Shingles-on-torus-Frame_VS_Plane.jpg) of the simple problem is > > here... > > >http://groups.google.com/group/grasshopper3d/web/Shingles-on-torus-Fr... > > > ... I'm pretty sure that the /Surface Frames/ command does not supply > > the data to the /Orient/ command correctly. What is the difference > > between a Frame and a Plane? The addition of a normal? Maybe that will > > help me get to the bottom of this. > > > Curiously, > > > Jason > > > On Nov 8, 1:43 pm, jvannest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > > > I am trying to do something just like taz's "orient_shape_to_srf.png", > > > but am having a spot of trouble. The simple goal is to regularly > > > distribute small surfaces on a torus. > > > > "Shingles-on-torus.3dm.zip" and "Shingles-on-torus.jpg" are uploaded > > > to demonstrate the confusion. In summery, [1] the torus is divided > > > into curves, [2] the curves are divided regularly for points, [3] the > > > tangents of those points are used to set up local planes. Finally, [4] > > > those local planes are used for the orient command, but for a reason I > > > cannot understand the distributed polygon fly off the torus! > > > > Does anyone have an idea for why this might happen? > > > > Thank you, > > > > Jason
