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Mesh Loft ​

Lofts a series of polylines into a single mesh — the quickest way to get from a set of section curves to geometry that can become elements.

🔧 Grasshopper component ​

MeshLoftAlpaca4d ▸ 10_Utility
Mesh Loft component
Inputs
PolylinesCurvelistThe polylines to loft through, in order.
All of them must have the same number of vertices.
Outputs
MeshMeshThe lofted mesh.

📈 When to use it ​

Use it when

  • You are building a surface from a series of profiles — a free-form roof, a shell of revolution, a tapered form — and want it as a mesh with quad faces you control.
  • You want the mesh topology to follow the profiles exactly, rather than whatever a general-purpose mesher produces.

Do not use it when

  • You already have a mesh. Feed it straight to ASD Shell.
  • The profiles have different vertex counts. Rebuild them to a common count first.

💡 What comes next ​

Polylines ──► Mesh Loft ──► ASD Shell            (a shell surface)
                        └──► Mesh Series to Brick ──► SSP Brick   (a solid)

For a solid, loft the inner and outer surfaces separately and pass both to Mesh Series to Brick.