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.