laser cutting set up in grasshopper

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Permalink Reply by martyn hogg on June 9, 2015 at 11:02am

You might be able to use the Bowerbird Plugin Tools to waffle each set of circles based on starting with spheres and setting the cutting planes to the required angles.

The tricky bit will be working out cutting planes in the right orientation for each sphere.

You will then have to identify each group of circles so you could assemble them.

It might not be possible where the circles have a small angle between them because there will be a big overlap due to the thickness of material and the small angle.

Not an easy project, but it would be a cool end result if it works!

Permalink Reply by an@mation on June 12, 2015 at 6:54am

thanks for the advice martyn i will look into Bowerbird now. 

Permalink Reply by an@mation on June 18, 2015 at 3:36pm

how do i get the base planes from the existing mesh geometry?