extruding subdivision mesh

Hi all, hi Giulio

Extremely interesting your work on catmull-clark. (no more maya for a while)
I wanted to do a very simple extrude, so I offseted the mesh, and build the walls.
But using both Serpinski o frame, I'm having problems later with mesh union node.
Mainly because I'm building the walls using surfaces and then rebuilding meshes!, which i guess is completely wrong, because it is losing all the vertex and face info..and because it's really not performant

do you have any idea for doing it better?

thanks!

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Permalink Reply by enrique soriano on November 26, 2009 at 6:28am

really nice experience with it.
now broken cause the 0043 release.
i hope there will be an update soon

thanks!

Permalink Reply by Giulio Piacentino on November 26, 2009 at 8:02am

Hi Enrique,

there's now a compatible version here: http://www.giuliopiacentino.com/weaverbird/. It also has a couple of improvements,

- Giulio

Permalink Reply by enrique soriano on November 26, 2009 at 8:15am

WOW!
just opened!
absolutely amazing
thanks a lot
cannot wait to try everything
i'll feedback as soon as possible.

Permalink Reply by enrique soriano on December 14, 2009 at 4:29am

Hi Giulio!

The new release is working really smooth.
But now we were wondering if you have any trick to "thicken" a wireframe, in order to generate an errorless STL file to print.
The classic boolean union of tubes and spheres, is always giving errors.

If you might consider we can open a new post for the topic of generating printable files, out of wireframe skeletons.

Thanks a lot.

Enrique

Permalink Reply by Giulio Piacentino on December 15, 2009 at 7:57am

Hi Enrique,

sure, maybe opening a new thread in "Discussions" might help. Could you narrow a bit your design intention?

- Giulio

Permalink Reply by enrique soriano on December 15, 2009 at 8:28am

Yeah!, it's done.
My mate Pep Tornabell did it.
We both, are looking for ways of printing STL out of "thickened" wireframe skeletons.
(and normally, boolean operations with tubes and spheres are not neat enough) see you there!