Create Shaft Opening From CAD (Remove diagonal line)

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Hi all,
I’m trying to create shaft openings from a CAD file. But I have an issue.

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The opening in my CAD contains diagonal lines, so when I group curver and create shaft opening from them it gives error. Only lines created from circles or openings in cad without diagonal lines can be created.

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Can you guys help me come up with the best solution in this case.

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Thank all very much.

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Hi @bao1296 ,

You could try something like this:

  • Split the list up, after the group curves node, by list length, assuming you only have lists containing 1 or 5 items, such that you now have a list with sublists of 5 to work with.
  • Sort the sublists in this list by curve length.
  • Remove the first or last list, depending on which one is the longest one, since the diagonal is always the longest one.
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I think this proposal is not reasonable because any opening don’t have diagonal
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as far as i think it is possible to get the contour of the whole cuvers and get the contour of that group however i can’t find any node that matches my thinking

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In addition, there are some cases where the diagonal is shorter than the contour, so it is not reasonable to arrange to remove the line with the largest length.

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I see.

You could use a Convex Hull algorithm for that, just note that this doesn’t really work well for circles, so you will still have to split those before.

I’ll try to create a simple script working for you.

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See if this works for you:

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PS: I used the Springs Convex Hull for 2D shapes because I couldn’t get the OOTB Convex Hull node to work.

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Convex hull should account for most cases, but if not you could take each curve and check how many other curves it meets. In total a diagonal should meet 4 other curves, whilst a non diagonal edge should meet 3 or less.

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Thank you so much for your great plan. I have worked on most of the openings, however some of my openings are not working properly.
Can you
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nQCsLWnO4YcqBjYCanV-XJLURUDFqqpo?usp=sharing

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I have checked that the cause is from this node but since I understand the nature of the node, it is not clear how this error can be fixed.

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Can you help me check what is causing this? Thank you very much

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Assuming you don’t have any curved lines… worry not about the curves but their endpoints.

Any line which is on the diagonal will have both endpoints touch a total of three curves. Any line in the perimeter will always have one end which only touches two curves. Testing endpoints for intersection counts should allow you to build a boolean which can filter to just the diagonal.

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