Jointing in Hexagon Panel

Hi,

I'm trying to create structural jointing for a project that I'm working on.

The idea is to connect each of the 3 surfaces/polysurfaces (as I'm planning to fabricate this using MDF) using 3 notches running perpendicular to the intersection of the surfaces (the pictures attached may explain and visualise this better).

I'm having problem in trying to create the surface cut out according to the shape of notches that are going to attach those surfaces, so any help will be very much appreciated.

I'm actually worried if this kind of jointing will work at all in real construction, but I'll give it a try for now. Or has anyone ever dealt with this kind of jointing and can suggest any more promising joints?

Thank you for the attention!

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Hexagon Jointing.jpg, 70 KB
Hexagon Jointing (zoom in).jpg, 58 KB

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Permalink Reply by Adeline on October 18, 2014 at 6:30am

Oh I actually forgot to attach the rhino file. Here it is, thanks!

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Hexagon Jointing.3dm, 424 KB

Permalink Reply by Pieter Segeren on October 18, 2014 at 6:48am

Hi Cindy, all the surfaces in your file (well, from the hexagons) are a bit twisted (non planar), I think that may be a problem for MDF, no?

Permalink Reply by Adeline on October 18, 2014 at 6:58am

Yes, I realised that too! But I don't know why the surface is twisted as I generated it from the lunchbox hexagon panel plug-in. It might be because the overall form of my project is curved.. I only captured a small portion of it in my previous attachment. Is there a way I could fix this non-planar surface?

Permalink Reply by Pieter Segeren on October 18, 2014 at 7:23am

Maybe, if you'd upload your definition with internalised geometry maybe someone can give you a suiting answer. I once saw someone use kangaroo to get the hexagons planarized, but I couldn't repeat that then. You can try a search for planar(ize) hexagons.

Permalink Reply by Adeline on October 18, 2014 at 8:31am

Thanks for your reply, Pieter.

I've attached my definition as follows. Hope someone will be able to solve this.

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