Add Thickness to a Boat hull using Grasshopper?

[manuel.biedermann (Manuel)]

I assume that for the 3d printed parts, you don’t need a high level of accuracy on the walls since you just want show a demonstrator object.

Therefore, one (very robust) approach can be to use the Dendro plugin to thicken the surfaces. The workflow is to sample a lot of points on the polysurfaces and then place voxels (e.g. spheres) on each point in order to create a thickened wall. You can export the placed voxels as a unified mesh.

Dendro plugin is here: Dendro | Food4Rhino
Download includes also example files for GH.

The idea of sampling a surface is described in the documentation e.g. see page 6:

Laurent has the described the approach also here:

Creating unified tubes shaped like corals

hey! so I have been trying to mimic the shape of these corals or these I only managed to create the shape of the tubes, using curves and applying ‘divide curve’, ‘pframe’, adding later multiple circle using the ‘circle’ component and ‘sweep1’ for the circles connaction. the qustion is - is it possible merge them into unified surface (and later apply offset), so i could get a unified shape of the corals. adding the gh file and the rhino file with the curves.corals_pipe.3dm (262.8 KB) pipes_…

Another approach could be to turn the polysurfaces into meshes (or one unified mesh) and then use the thickening component of Weaverbird or Pufferfish e.g.

https://msd-makerspaces.gitbook.io/next-lab/3d-printing/guides/thicken-a-mesh-using-weaverbird-and-grasshopper

How do I add thickness in surface?

Hi there! I am Janet, a second year archiecture student. We drew 56 meshs in rhino and used grasshopper + kangaroo to create a shape. We then baked it. We would like to 3d print it. But the problem is we cannot add thickness to the surface (baked from grasshopper). What do you suggest me to do? Thanks in advance for your help!