Netting over a complex shape

[jaymezd (James Dalessandro)]

Hello,

I am trying to model the mesh netting over an object that’s a bit complex of a shape. I am having trouble figuring out the best way to approach this problem.

You can see there is an opening by the hinge of the “pliers”. What I am having most trouble with is creating the base shape for the netting curves to be created on.

I have had some limited success using the Net On Srf component from Pufferfish + meshing curves with Dendro after using CageEdit on a surface, but it isn’t as close as I would like it to be, and doesn’t work so well with multiple trimmed surfaces when I have to join them together.

Here are my files for what I have done so far.
MC_proj_Forum.zip (13.2 MB) (rhino file, the base geometry is slightly large in file size)
MC_Proj_forumGH.gh (265.1 KB)

Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thank you

[vikthor]

Try this addon
@DanielPiker

Skeleton fattener + mesh cage morph

Hi everyone, Here is a first prototype of 2 new tools (as a .gha plugin), one for thickening skeletons into closed quad meshes, and one for morphing geometry with a mesh cage. Fattener.gha (27 KB) and some notes on how to use it here. Please bear in mind this is just an alpha version - no promises how well it will work. (This is following on from some of the earlier discussion in this thread: Creating smooth meshes from pipes, like TSpipe had in Tsplines?) Thanks to all of you who gave in…

This is an example

complex shape.gh (239.2 KB)

[jaymezd (James Dalessandro)]

Thank you for the suggestion. I had thought about using Fattener and tried it out but it didn’t work out the way I had hoped. I ended up using CageEdit + Net on Srf + Dendro just in a different way with some mirroring and it was successful.

[vikthor]

I think I understand what you mean.
wow! I didn’t know the dendo complement
I am glad that it will solve it I was also trying other methods