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RhinoScript Tool by simonk

Unrolls all selected surfaces and polysurfaces. Adds a tag (text dot) to them and prompts the user for the location of each unrolled shape.

Version 1 (Oct 19, 2008)

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• 9. Leon_Turrell (Jul 08, 2010 15.23):

  Would be better however if the script labelled not only unrolled surfaces but the corresponding geometry/panels of which they were generated. Also think an auto placement would be great

• 8. Leon_Turrell (Jul 08, 2010 15.22):

  Great

• 7. AufAlpen (Jan 09, 2010 09.31):

  thank you for your uploading!

• 6. AufAlpen (Jan 09, 2010 09.29):

  bold

• 5. simonk (Mar 13, 2009 22.37):

  Hi
  
  Thanks for your comments. The script was written to solve a very specific task and therefore has a lot of bad (shortcut) scripting and probably quite a lot of bugs. Just as you say the script would be faster without the text in the command line, but it would take MUCH more time to write the code, because the commands 'unroll' and 'pointsByUV' are not defined in rhinoScript. I don't think the speed is that much affected but I'm not sure. I think an array for the placement as you suggest would be a much better time saver. Feel free to edit the code, but please send me your copy and give me some credits unless you redo it completely.

• 4. drape (Mar 11, 2009 23.40):

  Hi. I've tried your script and wonder about a few things:
  
  - The script works pretty well as long as UnrollSrf is set to Explode=no before running it. If Explode=yes, the script leaves the geometry at the origin. Could the script be set to ask the user on that or set it for the user?
  
  - would the script be faster without the large amount of text being printed to the command line? this tool could be awesome for large sets of unfolds but wonder if all that text hinders that.
  
  - finally, a great new feature would be an automatic array of unfolded geometry. Each unfolded piece would be placed in a grid by a user specified array. This would be very useful for very large sets of unfolds.
  
  good stuff. i'm going to use it and i'm looking forward to seeing this evolve

• 3. microfeel (Mar 11, 2009 11.18):

  thank you for sharing.

• 2. veizaga (Nov 02, 2008 23.36):

  muchas gracias, podrian poner imagenes de lo que se puede lograr con los scrip que hay para descargar?. + muchas gracias

• 1. Hanno (Oct 19, 2008 19.07):

  Hey Simon,
  
  thanks for uploading these tools! They are indeed quite handy!

• +++ Oct 19, 2008 14.26: Unroll Multiple Surfaces Or PolySurfaces version 1 published +++