Fabricating Joints

Hi guys,

I'm currently designing a bug house and I am having difficulty in designing the joint system to use in order to successfully fabricate the structure. The enclosed file is what the model looks like and the following image is the joint system I am trying to achieve. If y'all could please guide me as to how I could figure it out on grasshopper, that would be great.

Jessica Rosenkrantz from Nervous Systems.:

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Permalink Reply by Dimitar Baldzhiev on October 13, 2015 at 12:04am

Maybe you can have a look at this.
http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/puzzles

Permalink Reply by Sagarika Sanjay on October 13, 2015 at 12:50am

Thanks for your reply however I would prefer to keep my initial geometry and implement the joint system from the above image.

Would value more suggestions :)

Permalink Reply by 未知 on October 13, 2015 at 1:55am

Very interesting topic, the final results are the requirements? as the picture shows?

Permalink Reply by Sagarika Sanjay on October 13, 2015 at 2:15am

not exactly a requirement but yes, that's the idea.

Permalink Reply by 未知 on October 13, 2015 at 3:14am

Try

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Permalink Reply by Dean Hewson on October 13, 2015 at 3:57am

Nice.

Permalink Reply by 未知 on October 13, 2015 at 4:13am

Update

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Permalink Reply by Dean Hewson on October 13, 2015 at 2:02am

I can think of a few ways to do it. Which way would depend on what you've got so far. Rough steps could be:

Find the mid point of every edge > Create a Perpendicular Frame at that point > Draw the shape you want for the joint biscuit and give as it's base plane input the perpendicular frames you've created > Do a Solid Difference with the biscuits and the panels to make a hole > Bake the Panels and Biscuits

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