Design + Optimization + Fabrication
Tool: Unfold Surface + Tabs for assembly?
All-
I'm somewhat new to Rhino as a fabrication aide. I have professional history in modeling, rendering, grasshopper... so those aspects of Rhino are fairly familiar to me.
I am looking for a tool that (1) allows me to unfold a series of surfaces (Nurbs preferred, but Mesh is possible) while (2) creating 'tabs' for assemble. My hope is to flatten a somewhat complex piece of geometry, lasercut the layout, and then quickly use the tabs/slots to re-fold/re-create the object in physical form.
Does anyone have a tool/script/GHX def for doing this?
Thanks!
JP
Tags: fabrication, slots, tabs, unfold
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Permalink Reply by RhinoFabLab on -
You may look at Paneling Tools and Squish...
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Permalink Reply by Hebert Franco on -
Hi Jesse. it seems that what you need is Lamina design. www.laminadesign.com Sees some example in my album. I am using of this software and is very efficient for this task. If to want more information is the will to ask
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Permalink Reply by northwind on
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have you tried the software from solid3dtech.com? it works.
It can unfold a multi-faced brep into a single contour and it also can unfold the tessesllated surfaces. Search in youtube for samples.
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Permalink Reply by RhinoFabLab on
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Have you seen inside Rhino 5.0 the Squish command?
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Permalink Reply by Evolute on -
Hi Jesse,
fairly old thread but I'll drop my 2 cents. Unless your original geometry is already developable, you need to get it developable if you work with materials with no stretch. If it is developable already just use Rhino's unroll command. Our software -EvoluteTools for Rhino optimizes freeform double curved surfaces for developability, this is what we used in the ShapeToFabrication Corian workshop. Downside is - not a free tool.
Cheers,
Florin
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