Extracting data for milling

I would like to cut out the extruded pieces in blue on the image attached. Is there a way to label each piece with the length, width and height for cutting? I also would like to label each piece by row for example 1a,2a ,3a, etc... as this should make the assenbly process smoother.

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Permalink Reply by David Stasiuk on October 26, 2012 at 1:51am

For a big milling project I did last year I set up a simple single-stroke font for tooling etched labels on individual pieces...the trick is in extracting the relevant information from your geometry and locating the labels where you want them on your material.

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/simple-single-stroke-curv...

If you use this definition, I'd suggest generating polylines from each character's point output. It cut down significant time for us on our project.

Permalink Reply by shaun on October 29, 2012 at 5:31am

attached you will find the definition. I would like to label the length, width, and height of each extrusion for assembly..I spent 2 hours getting the information for rhino for some of them its a tedious task. I was wondering if grasshopper could be used as a utility to speed up the assembly process?

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