Furniture Generator

Have not been using Grasshopper for years and now I am rather overwhelmed by the beauty and efficiency, which has been achieved in the meantime. So I have been trying today to create some kind of furniture generator for cutting plywood on my router.

This all still has many mistakes and is not beautiful at all, but it seems feasible to me. Now I would like to find out automatically if a contour is exterior or a interior, for offsetting the router bit for G-Code generation and for creating dogbones.

So I would be very glad for your support and advice.

Kind regards from Switzerland

Mischa

Furnituretest.gh

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Permalink Reply by ng5 Alex on June 18, 2014 at 5:04pm

Hello

please check the following

the definition at first takes the naked edges of a given surface. these curves are subdivided by 1 in order to have one point each (can make it also with evaluate curve component etc). After that the point in curve component checks the relationship of all these points with each of the curves.

the curve which has the most points inside is the outline curve, so it is culled to gain access to all the inside curves. i believe this can be generalized, but not sure, grasshopper and geometry often surprise me.

to follow this strategy your file needs a bit of work to get the naked edges as closed polylines-curves.

cheers

alex

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