Lmnts's Blog – April 2013 Archive (2)

A common part of fabrication is labeling the parts to make assembling easier, but typical TrueType fonts generally aren’t ideal for fabrication.  After looking into them a little, we discovered that the problem was because fonts need to be closed profiles and not just paths.  There are some pseudo single line fonts that can help minimize this problem, though there are often artifacts that may come through as missing or extra lines when Rhino drops part of the closed…

There are several commands in Rhino which have mesh splitting capability, but we’ve had limited success with them in the past.  This definition works for splitting a mesh with a set of a curves (lines, polylines, compound curves, etc.) by using a series of steps as described in the list below.  The sample file we’ve uploaded is set up to work in the XY plane, but can be quickly edited to work with other planes.

For more info, check out our post here: …