Hello, I have started using Rhino and Grasshopper only a couple of weeks ago and have tried the Parakeet plugin to create pattern to 3D print on textiles. However, I’ve always encountered this problem when creating a 3D pattern from the 2D Parakeet creates.
To make a 3D pattern, I use the pipe component and then make it a mesh so I can export an stl file from Rhino. By making a pipe, however, I struggle finding enough adherence to the textile so that the pattern stays on. For the pattern to be completely ‘glued’ to the fabric, I need a flat base given by the pattern per se, but by using a pipe function this flat base doesn’t exist.
I have also tried extruding, but it does not seem to work as the final result is a flat surface but too thin and I would have to increase the line thickness.
Do you have any idea on how I could fix this problem? Maybe there is a component I’m missing and that I should add in the graph?
If the problem is the line thickness, do you have any idea on how I could control it?
This stl file is an example of what I would like to reach in terms on line thickness and extrusion:
OC_net.stl (12.8 MB)
I will attach all the rhyno and grasshopper files, alongside the stl files I get out of the models.
Hope you can help! If you know how, please show how the components should be attached to each other!
Parakeet 1 with the extrusion component
Parakeet1NEW.stl (351.6 KB)
Parakeet1.gh (7.4 KB)
Parakeet1.3dm (574.4 KB)
Parakeet 2 with the pipe component:
Parakeet2Pipe.gh (5.4 KB)
Parakeet2Pipe.stl (9.6 MB)
Parakeet2Pipe.3dm (9.7 MB)
