Fabric Formwork Paneling

[AndersDeleuran]

@njwheele

I have been able to use kangaroo to simulate our tensile forms, but I am having a hard time figuring out how to flatten the mesh.

You can use the Stripper and Unroller components that come with Kangaroo to unroll quadrilateral meshes into planar strips. Some more options here (using geodesics and graph-based methods):

Geodesic lines on a Mesh

Three methods I can immediately think of (depending on the mesh): If it’s a subdivided quad-mesh, one can make NURBS patches and find geodesics on these (example here). If it’s an evenly triangulated mesh, one can make a graph and find shortest paths (roughly equivalent to geodesics, example here). Use Kangaroo to pull and minimize/relax a polyline onto the mesh (this should work with any mesh). That said, there are explicit methods out there developed for mesh geodesics (like this o…