Hey Rhino Community,
So im really new to rhino and need to make a lamp for my school assignment. The question i have is, how will i make a frame for this lamp? The exterior of the lamp is going to be some thin paper like material that will need a frame to be stuck onto and held in place with. This frame is also going to be laser cut. I am struggling on not only how i can achieve a frame, but also how i am supposed to make it in rhino. Thanks!
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did you look at how other lamps in that style are built up? since you have a laser cutter at hand the easiest way i could think off is to make 3 rings from plywood and connect them with vertical segments that are merged into the rings. all the same thickness so you can cut in one go. you can also make the vertical segments partially thicker where the paper has to be protruding out more like in your example.
here a rough sketch
Hey thanks so much for the response. So i tried using that picture as a reference and while i made the circles, i realized they would be at different varietys of heigh and would need either multiple sticks to connect one to another, or just 4 curved sticks to connect them all. I really want to connect them all using the least amount of material, i just dont know how to make a curved connection between all the circles.
i would maybe use Polyline, you can also use a curve of course then i would use InterpCrv to be sure each mouse click results in the curve being forced to go through this point but i really think Polyline will do. have the snaps enabled and snap to the endings end of the seams of your rings.
after you drew the polyline you can use ExtrudeCrv with option both sides
then use OffsetSrf on this resulting polysurface (you may have to flip the direction with option flip)
use area centroid on one of the cirlced rings to get a center point then use ArrayPolar from the center point with the last polysurface to distribute as many as you need around that center.
did it work out for you?