Node Generator

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Permalink Reply by peter fotiadis on February 20, 2016 at 11:42am

Hmm ... still you haven't crossed the Rubicon eh? (the Dark Side wants You, he he).

Other than that bravo > keep walking the walk.

Permalink Reply by Charles Fried on February 21, 2016 at 4:37am

Since we last spoke I joined the MSc Architectural Computation at Bartlett where I've been working with Processing, so I guess to some extent I have.

C sharp seems fairly similar so I'm sure I won't take me long to figure things out. :)

Permalink Reply by peter fotiadis on February 21, 2016 at 6:30am

Permalink Reply by Nik Willmore on February 20, 2016 at 1:02pm

I was excited about my new Grasshopper node generator.

Physical nodes instead. Rather impressive to make a 3D printer much more useful though. This is important work. An elusively obvious paradigm. Full triangulation means the nodes don't have to be tear-apart strong either since the angles are not unstable like with larger polygons.

You could also flat pack these as kits and fiberglass rods are cheap and easy to cut with a fast little abrasive cut-off saw, preferably with mist cooling and a water collecting table underneath, all to handle the dust.

Fiberglass rods are available from an antenna supplier, here, just sand and varnish them if needed, or just wax them, but they are OK raw too:

http://www.mgs4u.com/fiberglass-tube-rod.htm

Permalink Reply by Charles Fried on February 21, 2016 at 4:51am

I did indeed use fiberglass tubes, however due to the pultrusion process I found them to be very brittle along their length. As soon as any torsion is applied they would split. I guess this wouldn't be so much the case with rods.

fiberglass

Permalink Reply by aggadea on March 4, 2017 at 10:58am

thanks for sharing Charles !!! I was working on some 3dprinted joints for a larger scale structure with a very similar concept of combining 3dprinted joints, rods and in our case strings... hope that once we get some results I can put together a post and share the experience and workflow

Permalink Reply by Noam Yorke on March 5, 2017 at 2:42am

Great work. I am trying to automate a process of adding ready made connectors to an assembly.

do you think it is possible to analyze how the lines are connected(direction, number of lines), and attach the right type of connection by the data?

Attachments:

• 2017-03-05 08_21_00-ramat gan for production (44120 KB) - Rhinoceros 5.0 Evaluation (74 Days Remaini.png, 73 KB

Permalink Reply by Felix Wieberneit on August 18, 2017 at 6:36am

Hi Charles!
Thank you for sharing the definition!
I've been playing around with it for the last few days.
I tried to figure out a way to a higher mesh quality for the nodes but couldn't figure out how. Do you have an idea how that could be done?

Permalink Reply by Charles Fried on April 26, 2019 at 6:14am

Hi Felix, tried sub-dividing it with weaverbird?

Permalink Reply by Ben Shirley on April 26, 2019 at 5:57am

Hi Charles, 

This will be perfect for my project at university. I'm trying to create node connection points for a tesseract of hyper-cube. I've downloaded you script and trying to work on it now. Are there any tips you can give me? or should it all be relatively straight forward? 

All the best 

Ben 

Permalink Reply by Charles Fried on April 26, 2019 at 6:15am

Hi Ben, it should work well - feel free to share your results!

Permalink Reply by Gaston on May 22, 2019 at 8:53pm

I am having trouble with the definition, i get the feeling that i would need to use the images you included on the definition to help me but it says that it was unable to connect to the remote server. do you think you would be able to post those images? i just don't want to take too much of your time.

Thank you