Example of MultiPipe Creating a Skin Over a Mesh?

[EricM (Eric Paul Marvets)]

I saw this table in the news section, and I’m curious about the use of MultiPipe. Does anyone know of an example showing how this was done?

@bobmcneel

Everything is procedurally generated in Grasshopper; the boundary is populated with points in gradual density, which are then connected and go through several steps of automated and manual optimization. The final geometry used for 3D printing is generated using the MultiPipe component, which creates closed SubD geometry with smooth connections and variable thickness.

[Eef_Weenink]

Thinking with MultiPipe

[Multipipe_Thinker_Rhino7_BrianJames_2] https://www.instagram.com/rhinoitall/

[Jakob_v_Schirmeister (Jakob von Schirmeister)]

but there are conections inside not only on the “surface”
..as a start :
tableStart.gh (20.4 KB)

[EricM (Eric Paul Marvets)]

Yeah, it looked way different than using mesh vertices as the line input to MultiPipe. It looked like it converted a tubular mesh skin into a subD skin.

[Eef_Weenink]

Quick and dirty:

Network of curves on surface of mesh.
Shatter to cut them up
(With brep I would use Pull Curve to get them on the Surface)
Multipipe in most simple setting.
So, start up the machines and start designing. Have fun. Eef

Example of MultiPipe Creating a Skin Over a Mesh?.gh (18.9 KB)