Adding tabs to panelized surface trouble. I figure that I am just missing something simple but I have been struggling to add tabs to a panelized surface that I created.
I have been looking at a couple of tutorials one being the digital tool box "offset and scale/create tabs" one. The problem I am having comes after I explode the panels, offset the edges, find their center and scale them. When I try to put that data list into three list items with three respective i values (0, 1, 2) all of the data goes to the list item with i=0 and none of it goes to the other two. Help needed for modelling C-Space. Unfolding with Compound Transforms. 2013 update: this is probably a better way to go.
Cross posted here. Lately, in some of my work I have been investigating unfolding complex forms with Grasshopper. The newest release of Grasshopper enables the use of Compound Transformations, which makes it possible to quite efficiently unfold strips of planar surfaces. In the past I have had to use pepakura or other similar utilities to perform the unfolding outside of Rhino, or alternately a slow faux-recursive method where I essentially unfold one segment of the polysurface at a time. Below are a few definitions making use of this new capability. Finally, with the right settings on the same definition (setting V divisions to 1 and U divisions to some high number) it can be used to substitute for the UnrollSrf command in Rhino with a high degree of accuracy.
Panelling. ParametricDesign. New Fabrications for Architecture. The Euclid robot and Ron 2.0 make their first 3D printed object.
This was just a simple test print on the Euclid robot now that it is fully up and running, but it came out better than I was expecting. This whole layer based printing business is pretty easy. The details: It is printed with ABS plastic,size is 12 inches tall and 5x5 inches in plan. Because Ron 2.0 is such a huge plastic extruder the ‘line weight’ is very wide; that coupled with the speed that the robot was moving makes for a very thick walled structure.
So much so that I can stand on this thing, both upright and on its side. Fast 3d slicer. Ive worked all the day in this definition and I hope you like it.
With this you can: -make ribs with notches -use the sliders to specify the x and y spacing of a rectangular grid or -use a custom grid (for this you just need 2 sets of lines) -specify the thickness of the material -atomatically place and order the ribs with labels for cut -use a 3d guide for construction -Run or stop the definition It has torus example inside with the custom grid option on. For now (and its just today) all the geometry I sliced worked perfectly. Any suggestions will be very welcome! Unfolding Surface Strips « Heumann Design/Tech. Unfolding Surface Strips 26Mar11 Lately, in some of my work I have been investigating unfolding complex forms with Grasshopper.
The newest release of Grasshopper enables the use of Compound Transformations, which makes it possible to quite efficiently unfold strips of planar surfaces. In the past I have had to use pepakura or other similar utilities to perform the unfolding outside of Rhino, or alternately a slow faux-recursive method where I essentially unfold one segment of the polysurface at a time. Below are a few definitions making use of this new capability. Finally, with the right settings on the same definition (setting V divisions to 1 and U divisions to some high number) it can be used to substitute for the UnrollSrf command in Rhino with a high degree of accuracy. GH unfold panels.