I've been working on a waffle system that creates an "egg crate"
structure from any set surface in Rhino. It has parametric sliders to
control how far you want to extrude the surface, the number of
divisions in the x and y axis and the material thickness of the actual
struts. Ideally, this definition would be used to create laser cut
models of any surface, and the notches would be already put into each
strut. I'm having one small problem. I've generated the boundary
curves (the strut outline) and I've been able to create the notches
based on the material thickness. My problem is I can't seem to join
the two... meaning, I can't seem to trim out the notch portion of the
boundary curve and get one unified curve that could be immediately
sent to the laser cutter. I've tried to create solids out of the
struts and the notches and doing a boolean difference, but it didn't
seem to give me any kind of usable output. I'm very close to
finishing this script and I'm just curious if anyone could help me on
this last step. Here's a link to the screenshot of how the script
works http://grasshopper3d.googlegroups.com/web/waffle%20system_01.jpg?hl=en
And here is a link to the definition.
http://groups.google.com/group/grasshopper3d/web/waffle%20system_08.ghx?hl=en
Thanks for your help in advance.
Best,
Andy
