Box Slits

I'm a furniture design/woodworking student and I'm working on teaching myself how to parametrically design my projects. Right now, I'm essentially trying to make a waffle structure, only I'm trying to use create it with individual beams instead of solid pieces, to simulate a half lap joint. Box slits seems perfect for this but the component states, "Box must be a clear slab in that one dimension is clearly shorter than the other two," and it's leaving me confused as to how to proceed. Any assistance would be appreciated. I'm also new to the discussion, so if I posted this in the wrong place, my apologies.

Thank you,

Adam Papin

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Permalink Reply by Hannes Löschke on November 24, 2013 at 12:59pm

What the error message says: your boxes need be more slab like. Your beams have a rectangular section...

Permalink Reply by Adam Papin on November 24, 2013 at 1:09pm

The material that I have is .5" square stock for the lattice work, so beam size is non-negotiable. I suppose this means the component won't work for me then.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on November 24, 2013 at 1:36pm

Hi Adam,

I'm afraid it won't work for the time being. The algorithm I wrote that solves the split shapes simplifies the boxes to a single plane with an implied thickness. For this to work one of the box dimensions needs to be significantly less than the other two.

Maybe someday I'll write a better slit solver, but until then you'll have to find another way to solve it.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Permalink Reply by Adam Papin on November 24, 2013 at 4:35pm

Thanks everyone for your assistance. I did some work on it and got to the point where I can solid difference some boxes from each beam that are aligned correctly. I'm just having an issue with it not differencing each intersection. I don't know if it's a data tree issue or what. Once again any assistance would be appreciated.

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