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Unfolding/unrolling initial

Unfolding/unrolling initial

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Unfolding/unrolling initial

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- [Instructor] Hello and welcome. In this video, we're going to use a custom C-sharp component to build a really common piece of functionality that is included within Rhino, but not in the standard Grasshopper tool set. And it's something that's included in a few different plugins within Grasshopper. But there's some real benefit to having control over it yourself, because you can control how you interact with it, you can add things, you can remove things. And I'm talking about unrolling. So here is a surface within the exercise file I'm starting with, and I'm going to to set up an unroller, unroll it, and then we're going to look at some of the other things you can add to that unroller. So if I go to math, C-sharp. I want to to input this geometry as a B-rep. So we'll call this surface because we're really thinking about unfolding something. So we want to think of it as a single surface, even though it's going to be a…

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