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Monday, February 9, 2009

Flowing objects along a surface


Learn how to use the command FlowAlongSrf in Rhino to morph any selection onto a target surface.

7 comments:

aubergine2001 said...

Thanks, I have been using this 'Flow along surface' lately and this is a good tutorial.
I would suggest using the UV to extract a surface into a flat planar surface for the objects to be flowed. This helped me a lot when I found this out.
Anyway to have rigid always on in the Flow options ?

Brian James said...

Hi aubergine2001,
Thanks for the feedback! Matching UV parameters between the base and the target surface can surely be helpful as well with FlowAlongSrf.

You can write a command macro to always use the rigid option in Tools>Options>RhinoOptions>Aliases... choose a hot key/alias and then type this as the command macro
! _flowalongsrf pause _rigid

Laurenn said...

Just fell upon your blog from Core77. It's awesome, I'll be subscribing to your blog from now on :)Looking forward to more tutorials :D

Raijv said...

Hi,
Nice tutorials Brian, really helpful, I too write few tutorials for rhino and autocad, hope all likes it.

here is the link :

http://product3d.blogspot.com

Regards
Rajiv

chilli said...
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chilli said...

The video was really helpful. I am very new to Rhino and I have been trying to create a skin for one of my projects that would be result of its response to the climatic conditions of the place specially the sun...how should I go about this? do you have any suggestions? is there any resource that I might tap into for some guidance?

Thanks

Brian James said...

Hi,

Thanks for the comment. I think the Grasshopper plugin will give you the power to do what you want. You could for instance change louver angles or window apertures in relation to a vector representing the sun angle. You can dive into GH here... http://www.grasshopper3d.com/

I've posted a few tutorials on this site as well which may help get you started.

Thanks,
Brian J.