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Damn that's beautiful, thank you so much Paul. Was still working on a few other methods but wasn't really able to figure it out still. Definitely going to study this setup :) Thanks again for taking the time

Definitely there're many ways, more or less procedural or mathematically correct. I tried first a more simple and flexible way. climbing_rope_v01.hipnc

Nowadays you would rather use the group expand node, though: https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/nodes/sop/groupexpand.html group_expand.hip

Hi, another method is that this group you created is your preselect group, so lets assume to call it preselect. Now put down another group sop, set it to points, turn off the enable toggle on the first page, go to edge tab, turn it on. Turn on edge depth, and in the points group field choose your preselect group, then adjust your edge depth accordingly. I use this all the time.