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Sorting and searching Brep Components

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Sorting and searching Brep Components

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- [Teacher] In the last video we finished up orienting and rotating the 3D extruded version of our shelf design and that wrapped up this entire step of our algorithm where we extrude our 2D profiles into a 3-dimensional form. So we're going to continue on to the next step in our algorithm in this video. I'm going to zoom out here in Grasshopper. Let's take a look up here in the top right of our definition. I've got the last two step of our algorithm that we need to take care of, so I'm just going to take that one, scooch it down to where we were working earlier. What we need to work out over the next several videos is making a flat array of labeled 3D panels for CNC routing. Let's think about what we're asking for here. If we think about cutting the parts for this form on a CNC router we really couldn't feed in the whole assembled form. We would need to take each individual panel, flatten it out on some sort of a base, as it would sit on the machine as it's getting fabricated…

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