June 2011 Blog Posts (24)

Reduces material area for cutting from a series of sections.  Uses Galapagos.

Any feedback would be much appreciated.

References this post: http://www.grasshopper3d.com/profiles/blogs/sectional-modeler-for-laser

LaserMaterialOptimizer.3dm…

Ive worked all the day in this definition and I hope you like it.

With this you can:

-make ribs with notches

-use the sliders to specify the x and y spacing of a rectangular grid or

-use a custom grid (for this you just need 2 sets of lines)

-specify the thickness of the material

-atomatically place and…

Here is a component I have made for obtaining a set of almost planar surfaces for approximating a NURBS surface. This components converts mesh quad surfaces into a set of individual NURBS surfaces. If you want to use this component for manufacturing a double curved surface; you need to check the maximum deviation of quads from planar status and see if you and your manufacturing technology can tolerate this much error. Enjoy. 

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ROMA  22 - 24 LUGLIO 2011

I have released an open source plug-in which allows Grasshopper to send commands directly to AutoCAD using COM.  I have tested this on my machine running AutoCAD 2011 64-bit on Windows 7.  

I have released the source code so hopefully the bones can be used for different purposes and software versions.

If you develop a cool use for this, let me know!  I would love to feature it.

Enjoy!

The plug-in and source code are available at…

We've just published a new post highlighting the documentation work that we did using Grasshopper and Revit for the Cleveland Medical Mart.  Doing quantity takeoffs in Grasshopper was possible but we were required to submit a model to the local architect in Cleveland which forced us to create a link between Grasshopper and Revit which we've named Cricket.  The…

RGSS (rhino & grasshopper study session)　Tokyo　vol.25 will take place on 22 July.



Around 6pm, @ Yoshioka Library

http://www.japan-architect.co.jp/jp/special_features/…

Hello Everybody

First of all I must express my feelings about Grasshopper and kangaroo : Amazing work that will change the shape of design architecture and engineering.

As for my need of help. After many times of trial and error I am afraid  I will not be able to master kangaroo without good knowledge of civil engineering. So I am asking for…

A nifty little tool for creating connectors between pretty much any kind of planar surfaces which intersect themselves at the edges. 

What it basically does is to output in a ordered structure the intersecting faces (as tree branches) and their intersection line. From there on you can continue to build up your own connectors…

Ih.3dm

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A:

feed your boolean values into an integer component (this converts the data type), then use a simple 1-variable function to convert... in this case '(x + (x-1))' will do the trick.

Q:Circle Circle Intersection or Curve Curve Intersection or Tangent Circle Point

A:…

Grasshopper VB Scripting Primer, Version 2

Hoopsnake Iteration Component

Switch surface UV direction:

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/switch-u-v-in-surface

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/component-wish-surface?xg_source=activity

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/swap-uv

We're taking a short break from unpacking the design process for the Cleveland Medical Mart facade and have a new post focusing on the lighting studies we did for the central atrium.  Radiance, Grasshopper, and Exposure (3DSMAX) were all used to design and test various skylight configurations.  Rather than using a handful of huge skylights there…

This is a definition (WIP, attached) which creates sections for a laser cutter from opened or closed single geometry.  This won't work on every geometry, but it will work for a lot of them.  It uses offsets and booleans so it may be difficult to predict.

I'm also playing with a way to minimize material area for cutting (with galapagos).  If anyone can offer help to improve it, let me know! 

Update:

- Some issues with outside…

Hi guys,

The Architectural Association is organizing a workshop in São Paulo, Brazil, from the 12th July until the 21st.

There will be three days of digital classes on Processing by…

finally i examined the structures in interaction with light and how they

can work as shades, reflectors, receptacles…

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using gh for the form finding process in PRODUCT DESIGN.

i tried to find some useful applications and not use gh just to create crazy shapes...