Need some help, don't know what to do

I made a sin curve using the arc tool in Rhino and then extruded it. I now want to create a mesh made up of a letter from the alphabet repeated continuously, essentially creating the curved shape. Is this possible? If so, can anyone guide me through how to do it?

I was trying to find a good Rhino discussion forum, but didn't have much luck. Does anyone know of a good forum? I didn't know where else I could post this.

Thanks in advance

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Permalink Reply by John Gregory on October 7, 2010 at 7:05pm

Hello Chistina Z,

Would love to help, but a bit confused about the letter and how it is relevant to the sin curve. Can you attach a picture or example of where you would like to go with the project?

Permalink Reply by Christina Z on October 7, 2010 at 7:11pm

It's a project for my Graphic Design class. Basically I want to take the curve as seen in the bitmap upload, and create a mesh. Rather than a mesh of continuous lines creating the shape of the curve, I want to make a mesh with one letter, let's say lowercase 'i'. It will repeat itself to create the shape of the curve.

Like these i's create a rectangle...
iiiiiiiii
iiiiiiiii
iiiiiiiii

I want the i's to create the shape of the sin curve.

Does that help?

Attachments:

sin.bmp, 3 MB

Permalink Reply by Christina Z on October 7, 2010 at 7:15pm

in case bitmap doesn't work...

Attachments:

sin.jpg, 58 KB

Permalink Reply by John Gregory on October 7, 2010 at 8:00pm

ok, I think you know what you are looking for. Try this and see if it helps ....

Attachments:

letter_flow-01.ghx, 56 KB

Permalink Reply by Christina Z on October 7, 2010 at 8:07pm

These are the steps I saw when I opened it (there was a lot of random letters and this was at the very bottom in caps)

1. DRAW A LETTER IN RHINO....TRY TO KEEP IT AS ONE SHAPE. IN OTHER WORDS, THE LETTER "C" SHOULD BE CONSTRUCTED AS ONE CURVE OR A JOINED CURVES. 2. ATTATCH SRF AND GEOMETRY TO GH COMPONENTS. 3. USE THE SLIDERS IN THE SFRAMES TO ADJUST PROXIMITY AND THE ROTATION SLIDER TO FIT. ENJOY

I'm sorry I didn't mention this earlier, but I don't know how to use grasshopper yet. Is there any way to do this within Rhino itself?

Permalink Reply by John Gregory on October 7, 2010 at 8:14pm

Im guessing that you just clicked the file. Right click on the file and "save target as" name.ghx . From there you can put the .ghx file on your desktop and open the file in grasshopper. If you are clueless as how to navigate the grasshopper interface, then I would suggest watching some tutorials to get the basic idea of what the tool is how it is integrated into rhino.

digitaltoolbox.info

good luck

Permalink Reply by Christina Z on October 7, 2010 at 8:26pm

So you're saying there is no way I could do this in just Rhino alone?

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