This is 92 patch surfaces that are made from the edge curves of a polyhedron from the Vipers plug-in PolygonaA component. Is there a way to makes this a Solid Brep, or anything else that can be manipulated in GH using standard GH components? Things I’ve tried that don’t work: meshing, reducing Rhino’s tolerance, SUnion, Brep Join, baking to Rhino & Create Solid command.
The last method does create something that can be exported, but the results are far from a real solid. Here’s a closeup of one junction area:
Gosh Laurent - that’s a totally different approach. What surprised me the most was how the SUnion component generated 2 separate results. I’ve used SUnion a lot, and every time it generated only the outside surface of whatever is joined together. But in your script there’s an outside and an inside. Where did the inside come from?
I understand how the inside would be a Closed Brep - it looks like it is some sort of solid from which the spheres were subtracted. But where does it come from? Is there something magical about spheres? Or maybe SUnion has a hidden power I am unaware of? It looks to me like whatever is going on there under the covers could be used to make lots of interesting shapes.
As Rhino is not a solid modeller tool, there are no hollow solid ! There are many discussions on this.
There is no magic, it must be something like that happens
The trick here is you need to make the patch untrimmed, then you add CreatedSolid. This one is from Flexibility.
This method fails sometimes. The overall geo is still solid but it might create some small solid bits at the tips.
But for this case, it is OK. I can even do the BlendEdge to all the edges.
Nice one Quan - thanks. I got the Flexibility add-on and it’s MakeSolid component seems to work better than the one from Parakeet. It sure looks like this type of issue has occurred before for at least a few people. I’ve got a lot of new toys to play with and my printer has neem quite busy. I’ll post a pic of all the pointy things I’ve come up with in another day or 2.
Wow! Thanks you for sharing!
The shape looks much more intriguing after being realized.
I saw you print a lot complex shapes. Have you considered a resin printer? For complexity like this I guess SLA or alike might be more efficient.
Note that I only use the glue stick as a size comparison for photos of my printed objects. Printing on a PEI plate requires no additional adhesive.
Yes, I have been helped many times by people here, so thanks for that. I continue to be amazed by the depth of functionality in the GH/Rhino combination.
Be careful what you wish for. Consumer oriented 3D printers are not like real commercial production machines. You’ll need to develop lots of different skills do deal with any printer that is consumer oriented. Not to mention the large amount of conflicting and erroneous information that is available online.
