September 2013 Blog Posts (24)

Most recent file uploaded. Still needs UI cleanup, 90 degree rotated paralell finishing, and a horizontal roughing script.  

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Education by Design Week continues with this course release on What's New in Grasshopper V9.

http://lab.modecollective.nu/lab/whats-new-in-grasshopper-v9/

Ronnie and Gil will share their thoughts on the dynamic nature of today's creative practice and how tools such as Grasshopper are empowering the next generation of designers. Mark your calendar, be heard, and pose your questions to the community. …

hallo everyone,

I am trying to get an outline or closed polyline from a fisheye picture that i produced. attached is the jpeg. Is there a way to get a closed outline where only the sky can be seen ( i.e: without the surrounding building).

thank you in advance.  

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“Education by Design” week is a series of in-person and online educational experiences exploring new modes of technology-enabled design innovation. Monday marked the launch of this weeklong event which is focusing on new approaches to curriculum development and content delivery for creative professionals in the field of architectural design.

Event highlights this week:…

Attached is the grasshopper definition, rhino model, gcode, and image.  The swarf milling is substantially faster than rhinocam as a result of lower resolution.  Lower res = less acceleration/deceleration motion between G01 commands.  Users must still open the curve offset cluster to double check inside/outside curve offsetting.  …

This script combines:

- Parallel Surfacing

- Curve Profiling

- Point Defined Hole Tap Drilling

into one overall script with simplified and common slider inputs.  Individual tasks are clustered for editability, and can be connected/disconnected from the final G-Code Panel to make smaller separate milling operations or one cumulative one. 

The results have been tested in NCsim.  To be milled in blue foam tomorrow.  Plunge Roughing not yet…

Attached is a script for tool radius compensated surface milling.  The script:

- projects a grid of tool radii onto the surface

- determines the highest point of each radius and flattens the radius to that height

- interpolates parallel curves from the center points of the tool radii

- Segments those curves at user defined intervals

- writes g-code to move the cutter over those lines as a series of G01 commands.

Known Issue: when only a…

This script uses a point grid and projected circles of tool-bit radius to determine a series of points on a surface.  Those points are formatted in G-Code for copy/paste to a text .nc file.  The goal of projecting the tool radius is cutter compensation.  

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CNC G-Code Header is Machine Specific…

This week Introduction to Parametric Design for Architects Workshop anchors our Education by Design week. Come learn the ins and outs of architectural production using Grasshopper!

http://lab.modecollective.nu/lab/introduction-to-parametric-design-for-architects/…

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Facades+ returns to Chicago this October!

Attention architects, fabricators, developers, consultants, and all other design professionals:  don’t miss out on the opportunity to participate in the Chicago Facades+ Performance conference, symposium, and workshops.

Taking place at the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Main Campus (designed by celebrated architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and listed on the…

I am working my way through Daniel Shiffman's "Nature of Code" and am thinking about it in terms of Python components.  I have benefited greatly from talk-and-type style tutorials and think that there will be some benefit to the community if I create videos around my understanding of the concepts in the "Nature of Code."

I'm working my through these in my spare time so I have no set schedule when new videos go up.

I would love to see different examples and…

Hi guys!

A friend of mine and I are researching for the master thesis, studying a temporary shingle for archaeological sites. I'm sorry that I only have the italian version right now  so I'd be glad if you could give a quick look or leave a comment if interested!

Here's the link steqquadro.blogspot.com

Cheers

Stefano

“Education by Design” Week at Mode Lab

September 23-29

“Education by Design” week is a series of in-person and online educational experiences exploring new modes of technology-enabled design innovation.  This weeklong event will kickoff our redesigned approach to curriculum development and delivery to center on the needs of creative professionals in the field of architectural design.

Focusing…

City Tech is excited to offer an evening course in 3D printing open to students and professionals alike. The course will run from 6pm to 9pm on Tuesday nights for 9 sessions, starting October 1st and running through November 26th. The course will take place at NYCCTfab, a state of the art fabrication facility in downtown Brooklyn. 

Students will use Rhino to learn how to design for 3D printing using the ZPrinter 650 and the MakerBot…

Hello

I've made a grasshopper definition for making a steel profile follow any number of rails without the need to define the rotational manually....



now the profile rotation is restricted only to rotation on xy-plane.... but can be easily adjusted to rotate to any direction



attached rhino and grasshopper files…

This is an interpolation between 2 curves, there is another way to do this with Gh components?

Here the definition:…

A simple way to get access to a python list is use the following code in a separate python component and then string a few of those components together until you have gained access to all the needed info.…

A small addition, added nGon versions of the non quad limited expanded components.