adaptive wood structure

Hi all,

i have been searching a way to make a wood rib/ net structure that can adapt to its curvature. the principle is a structure should be adaptive in terms of dimension ( thickness, width ) to its geometry considering the different curvature will resulted in a different moment, especially a freeform double curved structure. all the examples that i had seen ( and my own beginner experiment ) always ends up in a uniform ( width, Thickness) size. can anyone help me or refer me to something.

thanks,

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Permalink Reply by Theunis du Toit on September 24, 2009 at 2:03pm

I havn't looked at this in detail yet, but maybe looking for is under Curves panel there is a component called Curvature. It creates a circle with centre point proportionally as large as the curvature at that specific point. The centre point of the circle is at Normal to the surface at the point of analysis. The distance the originating point and the midpoint of the circle can then be used to guide the size of corresponding cross sections at those points.

Like I said this is what I would do but I havn't tried it yet.

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