I'm modelling a grill using geometry nodes and I want to intersect instance cylinders on a grid node with a plane to create the holes. I was thinking about using the grid node itself to generate the plane, but I can't find a simple way of doing it.
I ended up using "Points to Volume" + "Volume to Mesh" but that is just too convoluted. I see that there's a Cube node in the Mesh Primitives section, but no Plane.
Is there a better approach for creating a plane using geometry nodes?
You can try this kind of setup if you don't want the overhead of using a boolean modifier with a very high number of cutting meshes :
It's instancing a simple plane and cutting it in the middle with a cylinder, then arraying it on another grid to create a grill.
You'll need to add a Realize Instances node just before the group output if you want to use other modifiers afterwards :
you can do it like this:
So i just used a boolean mesh node to cut out the cylinders, which were created by grid instancing cylinders.
