Bowerbird

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Bowerbird contains some tools for modeling.

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Latest Activity: Dec 7, 2023

BBWaffle:

Creates a waffle structure from a volume.

The component can handle multiple holes and is very fast!

Waffle open surfaces quickly e.g. by using the offset or extrude component (see examples).

BBRadial:

Create a radial waffle structure from a mesh.

BBLayer:

Creates a layer model from a volume.

You can specify a border to create a hollow. The border defines the minimum overlapping of the parts (e.g. for glue)

BBSection:

Creates a section model from a volume.

You can specify the section planes.

Note: BBWaffle, BBRadial, BBLayer and BBSection support only meshes. I droped Brep support because of the very low performance and stability. Use Grasshoppers mesh tools to generate meshes from Breps (see examples).

BBOffset, BBUnion, BBDifference, BBIntersection, BBXor:

Fast offset and boolean operations for linear polylines.

BBText:
Represents text with a single line font for labeling and engraving.

It uses a self made font engine which works very fast and accurate. All characters consist of lines and arcs. No Nurbs, no duplicate curves! Perfect for fabrication!

You can define location, orientation and size of the text. Choose between normal and bold font.

The component supports the following characters:

Basic Latin:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Extended Latin:
ßÀÈÌÒÙàèìòùÁĆÉÍĹŃÓŔŚÚŹáéíóúÂĈÊĜĤÎĴÔŜÛÃĨÑÕŨÄËÖÜäöüÅåŮŐŰČĎĚŘŠŤŽĂŬĀĒŌŪĊĖŻĄÇĘĶĻŅŢŲØøŦĐÆæ

Numbers:
0123456789

Special Characters:
+-*/±=≡÷<>≤≥«»()[]{}%∞√≈˜!?&'",;.:\_∑∫∢▹◃≠#≙□⌀◿◅$¢€‰@©®²³…^°

Greek Letters:
ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩαβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρστυφχψω

Rhino Commands:

Preview in Rhino:

Automatic alignment:

Installation:
Drag the gha file on to your grasshopper window. You will find the new components in the „Bowerbird“ tab.

Discussion Forum

BBsection arrange section in the xy plane. 2 Replies

186/5000Hello friends I am Martin, industrial designer from Argentina, please if someone can show an example of how to order the sections in the xy plane in case of using BBsectionregards.Continue

Started by martin sanz. Last reply by martin sanz May 12, 2020.

Bowerbird 2 2 Replies

After a while I finally managed to continue working on the Bowerbird.News:- Rhino 6 support- First version of the BB Pathfinder which allows to find curvature line on surfaces e.g. assymptotic…Continue

Started by Thomas. Last reply by Thomas Feb 12, 2020.

Bowerbird for Rhino 6 2 Replies

HellowIt is possible to find "Bowerbird" for Grasshopper in Rhino 6 ?( i think that dont run there in these new version?) ThanksContinue

Started by Cfeldman. Last reply by Thomas Dec 5, 2019.

With Bowerbird is it possible to make a waffle like this? 1 Reply

19956973_465429250500336_4277056140900311233_o.jpgCan someone help me? I have a gh file…Continue

Started by Caio Augusto. Last reply by Laurent DELRIEU Mar 19, 2018.

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Comment by martyn hogg on July 2, 2015 at 1:50pm: the edges would just fall off :)

Comment by Thomas on March 7, 2015 at 2:23am: Use a reversed base plane (z-axis negative) to reverse the slits.

Use the Slice component to define a custom slice pattern via planes.

Please post your questions in the bowerbird forum!

Greetings!

Comment by Juan Alvarez on March 6, 2015 at 5:32pm: Hi is there a way to reverse the slids so they go from top to bottom instead of bottom to top? And make a certain Y or X follow a curve instead of just X or Y?

Comment by Thomas on October 16, 2014 at 5:49pm: Hi Tim! Thank you for the comment. I made a mistake when I changed the font format. Sorry for that! I have readded the letters in the last release (0.6.1).

Comment by Tim Nøhr Elkær on October 16, 2014 at 3:09pm: Hi Thomas. I'm still missing the æøå (miniscule) letters in the current version at GitHub. I think I had them last year, but now they are gone.

Comment by Thomas on July 5, 2014 at 2:12am: You can use the base plane parameter to change the direction of the operation. The x/y layers are always orthogonal.

For the future: Please post your questions in the bowerbird forum instead of the comment wall!

Comment by HEEN on July 4, 2014 at 9:10pm: Damn I practiced a bit with all the definitions I've got the results, Could you delete the comments to avoid offtopic.
One more thing, how to control the rotation to get more variation on diamond shape, thanks for answering I am a little noob.

Comment by Thomas on December 18, 2013 at 4:52am: Oh, I see... I did make a mistake with the font names. Thank you! The bold toggle should now work as expected.

Feel free to ask for more characters.

For the parameters I choose the same order as Grasshoppers Text Tag 3D component. Unfortunately changing this order will cause compatibility problems so I will keep the actual order until a major update.

Comment by Tim Nøhr Elkær on December 18, 2013 at 3:23am: Hi again. Wow. That was quick :-) Adding extra characters to the Extended Latin is a great improvement, so thankyou for adding æøå.

I'm very pleased with your Bowerbird work. (Crazy bird by the way).

Comment by Tim Nøhr Elkær on December 18, 2013 at 3:21am: I have two comments, which you might consider in version 0.2.0.2.

First comment has to do with the Boolean Toggle of the Bold in BBText. I think it should be opposite, right? So if you add a switch it should read: Bold = True, if the typeface should be in Bold. - But it's not. Second comment is a simple wish: Could the Text be at the top, so that all the settings are grouped below ending with Location? This would also be helpfull in BBWaffle, where Mesh is at the top and BasePlane should be at the end. This would help untangling the definition in most cases