Applicable only for planar surfaces representing walls, slabs or raft foundations. Offsets for the mentioned surfaces are only restricted to offsets within the plane of the surface.
When the offset type for a particular direction is chosen as ‘local grid’, then offsets can be applied in the local plane of the surface.
The following three sample surfaces have been used to demonstrate the component.
Demo using general offset
Geometry input is a list with ‘Control Each’ as False
One offset component controls all the surfaces’ vertices. From the above figure once can observe that surface 1 has the highest number of vertices i.e. 7. Hence ‘7’ offset intensities have been fed to the TM offset component.
Geometry input is a list with ‘Control Each’ as True
When control each is true, ‘n’ offset components to be used for controlling ‘n’ surfaces.
Geometry input is a tree with ‘Control Each’ as False
In this case one offset component is enough to control ‘n’ surfaces.
Geometry input is a tree with ‘Control Each’ as True
Attach ‘n’ offset components accounting for ‘n’ surfaces.
Demo using ‘Branch Offset’
The control points followed by the component when the offset type is ‘branch offset’.
For some configurations, all the 17 control points across all the surfaces shall be controlled using a single ‘TM offset’ offset component.
Geometry input is a list with ‘Control Each’ is False
Attach one ‘TM Offset’ component with 17 offset values to control all the vertices of the 3 surfaces.
Geometry input is a list with ‘Control Each’ as true
Takes ‘n’ ‘TM Offset’ components to control ‘n’ surfaces.
Geometry input is a tree with ‘Control Each’ as False
Takes one ‘TM Offset’ component to control ‘n’ surfaces.
Geometry input is a tree with ‘Control Each’ as true
‘n’ ‘TM offset’ components control ‘n’ surfaces
Offset vertices of inclined surfaces
If the surface is planar but lies inclined and not aligned to any of the standard XY, YZ or ZX plane then one may use local grid offset type to alter the vertex locations in the surface’s own plane.
