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NGon: Reciprocal

NGon: Reciprocal

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NGon: Reciprocal

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- [Narrator] Welcome. In this video, I'm going to be looking at the NGon plugin for Grasshopper. You can find the NGon plugin on Food4Rhino. And as usual, you need to log in to download the plugin. You want to check the instructions for installation. In this, the usual process of unblocking the plugin files and adding to your libraries folder. I'm going to be working with NGon 2.1. I have my exercise file open already. So the key feature within the NGon plugin is the NGon, which is a mesh that can accommodate mesh faces with more than four sides. And this is actually a new feature added to Rhino itself, the support for that type of object, and NGon is taking advantage of that. So if I go in here under NGons, I can do to give an example, I can do NGon from polylines. So here I have a bunch of polylines, I'm going to bake these into Rhino, and then I'm going to reset them. So now that component is linked to the geometry…

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