how?
Waffle structure?
it would be awesome to output this to a laser cutter
cheers
Grasshopper
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seems âeasyâ provided youâve already created that same (or similar surface) manually and you donât want to go with grasshopper.
With that surface already shelled or offset you can create planar surfaces arrayed with polar array and intersect those with your shape:
Then generate surfaces and intersect in the other (vertical) directionâŠor use contourâŠ
But yes, grasshopperâŠsome options out there to get you close to âautomaticâ wafflesâŠ
Thatâs probably not a good project to try to learn Rhino and Grasshopper.
Iâd recommend starting with the tutorials in the Userâs Guide found on the Learn page, to get a good grounding in modeling with Rhino.
Then youâll be ready to dive in with Grasshopper.
With those skills under your belt, then a project like that should be quite doable.
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not arguing at all - though I believe we all learn differentlyâŠmany times you need a software and you must hit the ground running to get to your goal and solving a problem without previous experience (can) force you to look for hacks and shortcuts.
I remember I had never touched Rhino and I got a deadline to remodel Toyo Itoâs serpentine pavilion as a school project:
It is so easy to âreplicateâ now, both manually or with grasshopperâŠoh but did it break my head that week!! (8+ years ago)
âŠbut once turned inâŠI knew âenoughâ rhino to defend myself until graduation 
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I disagree, in my experience the more complex projects help you learn the software better. Simple projects like the ones in Rhinoâs user manual (for Rhino 3 when I was learning) bored me and I ditched the tutorial pretty quickly. I decided on building a stadium by the International Olympic Assc. Standards that kept my interest and desire to learn going.
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Iâm trying to model this at the moment, itâs my first time using Grasshopper and am pretty new to rhino so any help is greatly appreciated!
Hard to find accurate dimensions for the offsets (other than the blade extrusions)
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Hello - what is âthisâ?
In any case, I recommend learning a bit about Rhino -
https://www.rhino3d.com/learn/?keyword=kind:%20rhino_win
A bit about GH:
https://www.rhino3d.com/learn/?keyword=kind:%20grasshopper
Then, once you have started and run into a specific problem, feel free to ask here, provide a file, images etc so that we are not just trying to teach you from scratch with no context.
-Pascal
Oh! Thanks for your response, you may have missed the time replying to corellaman regarding Toyo Itoâs serpentine pavilion.
Iâm very much enjoying learning rhino and grasshopper so far and look forward to learning more!