Dear friends, may I ask about the lattice design of this saddle? If a hexagonal lattice is used to fill the saddle model, it ensures that the outer surface of the saddle is a regular hexagon, and the internal lattice support naturally connects with the surface hexagon. I have provided a basic model and reference diagram, please help me
Saddle design.3dm (1.2 MB)
Make either a closed polysurface of the saddle or 2 offset surfaces. Then use Grasshopper with a combination or Interlattice, Lunchbox, Weaverbird, Crystallon to create the lattice mesh. There’s lots of tutorials on youtube covering this.
Pretty sure this saddle was latticed with
Carbon Design Engine - A New Way to Design 3D Printed Products
The difficulty of hexagonal lattice technology lies in the fact that the surface of the object is a regular hexagon, and the supporting lattice inside the object is cut according to the shape and perfectly connected to the surface hexagon.
You can achieve it with ShapeMap and Dendro, and fyi.
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HexagonalLattice.gh (323.1 KB)
You can create these support structures based on the lines connecting the center points of the hexagons, for your reference.
HexagonalLattice2.gh (326.2 KB)
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