I’m not totally new to Rhino, but let’s say… I’ve forgotten just enough to struggle.
I need some basic modeling help for a small packaging project.
The assignment is to design a packaging for an object of my choice, with a “frozen movement” vibe… something a bit futuristic, sculptural, biomorphic, and elegant. (Yes, I know, not exactly the simplest brief… but I’m just trying to communicate the idea, somehow.)
I made a quick cardboard mockup to test the concept for an egg. Ideally this should be easily producible… laser-cut cardboard or acrylic would be perfect. 3D print is possible but not preferred because of cost.
I also generated an image in Gemini, and I love how biomorphic it looks. I’d like to get as close as possible to that feeling in Rhino.
Basically: I want to learn how to model this in Rhino (or Grasshopper, if that makes more sense).
As long as you want to work with 2d-sheet material / laser cutting - maybe first try to find a few references that still have the biomorphic look you are after.
Or are you already happy with a precise version of your cardboard mock-up?
the challenge here is, that - from a geometric point of view - the surface should be developable, and a standard screw-like / helix surface is not.
looking at your rhino file - do you really need 3d data ?
Maybe you can just do a few iterations to fine-tune the 2d shape that is cut by the laser ? so mainly work in 2d and have the 3d only in the real physical world ?
i think you need to narrow down your questions to a more rhino-specific question - otherwise people will point to This is not a do-my-work-for-me group
hope this helps - good luck with your project. - tom
Best would be to upload a file with what you’ve tried so far, so forum members can make suggestions what to do and what not to do. On the one hand, you’re showing some squiggly AI Slop shape with ribs, on the other hand something that looks as if it can be laser-cut from 2D material and then simply expanded, stretched to the length of your egg, like some of these veneer or sheet metal “expansion” vases, chairs, lights that were popular with some designers in the early 2000s (see below). The thinner your veneer, sheet metal, plastic, cardboard, the easier one can expand/stretch the shape.
