How to do interlocking panel?

I am currently try to make my design into a physical model and experiencing difficulties in making a script that will generate a cross shape interlocking orthogonal joinery, can anyone advice how can i start dividing this?

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interlock.3dm, 4.3 MB

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Permalink Reply by Armin Seltz on May 3, 2016 at 8:39am

You need to use the components "box slits" or "region slits", which can be found in the intersect category of grasshopper.

Permalink Reply by treemanxx on May 3, 2016 at 9:21am

how do i adjust the width of the slot with box slits, since i am planing to cut the model with mdf that has the same thickness

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on May 3, 2016 at 9:09am

It figures out which boxes/regions intersect and it creates the slits for you. However if you have two boxes that are supposed to slide all the way until their ends are co-planar, then the component doesn't which box should be cut using fashion A and which with fashion B, so in those cases you may end up with the opposite slits you'd like to get.

Permalink Reply by Hyungsoo Kim on May 3, 2016 at 10:36am

Hi.

Have a look at the attached def. and have some fun.

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CrosslColumnPanels_re.gh, 29 KB

Permalink Reply by treemanxx on May 4, 2016 at 5:11am

Originally , i made a script myself and the height of the field is influenced by a RGB map , and the sizing of the individual field is influenced by a network of circulation instead of a point attractor, is it possible to integrate the fabrication part of your script to this

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