Exoskeleton Curve-Based WIP: Expanding Hulls

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Comment by Francisco Lara on August 10, 2014 at 12:49am

Hello david I am doing some design with grasshopper and exoskeleton and I need to make really smooth nodes. could you advice me how to aprouch something like you are showing up here?

Comment by David Stasiuk on April 4, 2014 at 1:37am

Hi Rasmus...yes! I am planning on getting this out there when I can. I was hoping to package this with an updated exoskeleton wireframe component as well as a marching cubes isosurface geometry mesh-wrapper (and get it out several weeks ago) but I was overcome with another project, and I had to pause this. I will get back to it, I promise! :)

Comment by Rasmus Holst on April 2, 2014 at 2:56am

Really nice work David. Are you planning on sharing your script for this? :)

Looks really good.

Comment by Michiel Cornelissen on February 19, 2014 at 5:26am

Just been playing with your exoskeloton component. It's fantastic, can't wait for the updates!

Comment by I_M_F [Iker Mugarra Flores] on February 17, 2014 at 3:31pm

Great work David! looking super... thanks for sharing your research....

Comment by martyn hogg on February 15, 2014 at 5:02am

This looks great!

I was thinking about a practical application for this - it would be nice sometimes to fill solid shapes with foam-like structures, possibly of varying densities. You could populate a solid volume with lines representing a foam structure, then apply the exoskeleton. It could be useful for 3d printing as an alternative to setting the fill densities in the slicing settings.

Comment by Wieland Schmidt on February 13, 2014 at 5:40am

Cool! Looking forward to test it.

Comment by David Stasiuk on February 13, 2014 at 3:22am

You can see here:

Comment by David Stasiuk on February 13, 2014 at 2:40am

Hi Wieland...yes, it's set up now that you can set a start and end radius for each curve, and the radius transitions from start to end..if it intersects with others along the way, it interpolates the radii at each.

Comment by Wieland Schmidt on February 13, 2014 at 2:15am

Hi David, this looks really promising! Is it possible to assign a thickness to each individual curve? Keep us posted. Wieland