mesh to solid with galapagos

is there possible to make (calculate) with Galapagos a solid or nurbs surface from a mesh (*.obj l *.stl)?

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on December 17, 2014 at 11:59pm

Maybe, you're going to have to be more specific than that though. What sort of mesh? What sort of brep? What do you start with? What sort of topologies?

Permalink Reply by Sergey on December 18, 2014 at 1:10am

something like that - from Zbrush for cnc milling

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on December 18, 2014 at 3:20am

I think that's too much detail for Galapagos. You'll need to place too many control points to approximate this shape for it to be doable in a reasonable amount of time.

You should probably look into tools that were designed to solve this kind of problem. Perhaps you can use Kangaroo to distribute the surface control-points over the shape, but I can't tell you how to do that as I don't know myself.

Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on December 18, 2014 at 4:42am

What is the reason you need it as a NURBS surface?

Permalink Reply by Sergey on December 18, 2014 at 5:29am

i must to export model to SolidWorks like a solid for cnc program it maybe .3dm, .x_t, .step, .sat,.. in Rhino it maybe closed NURBS surface. I thought that NURBS surface can be draped to mesh with Grasshopper as a limit...

Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on December 18, 2014 at 5:42am

I'm sure you can CNC it as a mesh object. Try to find a way of doing that rather than converting it to a NURBS surface.

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