During the process of my last semester’s work, I just had to offset hundred of thousand curves, which seemed like to take forever.
work process diagram
So, this Rhino script is for this offset operations. Run script at Monkey, select curves to offset and then just wait Rhino to respond. Then you will get offset curves on the new layer.
Some screenshots of Rhino. Original curves,
original curves
and offset curves,
offset curves
and offset script.
offset script
And for those of you interested in script, download script.
Tags: Rhino Script
January 4, 2009 at 11:40 pm |
the images posted aren’t clear as to what was offset.
is this only for circle offsets or for all curves?
am trying to get a quick way to select a ton of curves and then run a script that offset them all to a specific amount.
January 5, 2009 at 3:19 am |
I am sure this script is gonna work very well with bunch of curves too. Why don’t you try this?
February 3, 2009 at 4:31 am |
works beautifully … but it creates the offset curves on the same layer, even in the same group. How can I change the script to create the curves on a different, maybe the current layer?
February 3, 2009 at 8:11 am |
You should make a new layer named “offset” before you run the script. I forgot mention it. Look at the line “rhino.objectlayer arraynewobject,”offset”. It says that it will assign the object named “arraynewobject” in the “offset” layer which is predefined.
October 11, 2009 at 12:37 pm |
Hi. I know it’s an old post. I am trying to offset a large amount of curves and I am trying to use your script.
I am doing it for the first time so I have no experience in doing this. I have loaded your script but when I try to runscript nothing shows up. Also if use -runscript and typ Main for the subroutine it doesn’t work either.
This is some really basic stuff but I just started learning.
Thanks,
Olek
October 11, 2009 at 2:58 pm |
For me it works well. I guess you were tyring to use it with open curves. It should work with just closed curves. FYI, it is handy to use Monkey instead of runscript thing.
January 17, 2010 at 1:13 pm |
hi im running this script by dragging it into the rhino screen. however, i don’t see the distance option, so it ends up creating the same curves on top of my selected curves (closed). you mentioned about Monkey, but i don’t know what it is… i am starting to learn as well…
thanks a lot~
January 17, 2010 at 1:21 pm |
oh never mind
i opened the script on notepad and changed the setting
now it works fine~
thanks anyways for publishing your script
it saved me loads of time~ really appreciate it~