TOOL: Solid Waffle for Lasercut

It can handle hollow forms, cantilevering masses and can generally take more complex geometry then the usual section plane-section curve algorithm. This is because of an operation which determines the middle point for notch/slot to happen, instead of the usual fixed height notching.

This script is aim to take in a BRep polysurface solid for generating a laser cutting file, by Victor Leung.

  • Ideal script to generate massing models for complex geometries.
  • It uses a global coordinate grid to determine cutting plates location, which allows two adjoining form to be baked separately while cutting plates matching across the two form.
  • Best used in mm scale.

This is not a simple script, not intend for general purpose.
The script still relies on solid Boolean operations, thus limited to what Rhino ‘can Boolean’.

I’ll add more description about the script later when I have more time.
I attached a form testing file, which you can play with some forms that I’ve sketched.

This is my first post, suggestions and comments appreciated.
Inspired by David Fano’s Parametric Truss script.