This tray is going to be an injection moulded piece made out of recycled ABS. I would like to add honeycomb style ribbing at the bottom.
I have already tried drawing lots of polygon shapes as seen in the image however for some reason those shapes are unable to be joined together into one. I selected them all and used the rib command, adding a draft angle of 1 degree but this results in a mess - some of the hexagons don’t become ribs at all and others become misshapen.
How else could I make these honeycomb ribs with a draft angle?
Hi James - I’m sure there are different ways of getting there - I made two hexagons for the base and two for the top. I lofted these using ‘Straight sections’ in the Loft command. I capped, then made a polar array,of six around the original, with the top faces completely overlapping. BooleanUnion followed by MergeAllCoplanarFaces.
Then I trimmed out one unit using the larger hexagon aligned to the mid points of the radialy oriented sides.
Sorry for the late reply. When I try to loft the drawn hexagons there is always a gap left and when I cap it, it caps the space in the middle rather than the empty space on the side. I re-lofted the outer-most hexagons and boolean unioned them together so it became a solid. My other issue is the polar array, I cannot get it to all 6 points. Please could you help me with this? Many thanks for your help.
(I am using Rhino6 so was unable to open the Rhino doc you shared) @pascal
