orienting strips for fabrication layout in waffle grid

Hello I am trying to make a paper model of waffle grid of a nurb surface using my GH script. I have generated 2d strips from given surface. But I am stuck with laying them flat on ground so that I can print them. Moreover I am finding it difficult to find intersection joints between these strips....please can somebody tell me how to do it...

below is a screenshot of what I have with me till now....

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Permalink Reply by nikos tzar on November 17, 2014 at 7:23am

Hello Gaurav,

There are many definitions for waffle structures posted throughout the forum:

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/grillage-fabrication-1

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/a-solid-waffle-for-laser

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/milkbox/forum/topics/2-way-slit

And if you want to try it yourself you can find a few tutorials online in order to understand the procedure:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMIXvlOiCF0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a38zoKkVa1c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O61dMrCN0U

Permalink Reply by Gaurav Goel on November 17, 2014 at 10:23am

Thanks for the links Nikos...! I will give it a try now after learning from these links....Though I wished I knew scripting like vb or python...it seemed too difficult to learn and understand those languages...but thanks for your help..

Permalink Reply by nikos tzar on November 17, 2014 at 10:45am

Hello Gaurav,

I just found some examples for waffle definitions and didn't go through them all but I don't think they all involve vb or python (I can't script either).

It can certainly be done with just native GH components.

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