From the course: Grasshopper: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

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Dealing with empty branches

Dealing with empty branches

- [Instructor] I have my exercise file open already. In this video, I want to focus on how to think about data trees when there's the potential for some tree branches to be missing data. We're working off of some of the functionality we built in prior videos. First, we're morphing a three dimensional B-rep component from a location on the XY plane onto multiple locations on a surface using the paneling tools. Second, we're unfolding all of those parts, and laying them out on the workplane. But what if you want to let your user clip away some of these parts selectively using a three dimensional cutter. So I've introduced this sphere. And here, I'm clipping back parts. And then getting rid of any parts that fall inside of the cutter, testing to see if something falls completely inside. So what I'm left with, are only the parts outside of the cutter and the parts being clipped back by the cutter. Now I want to unfold these…

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