Project Week 1

First project exploring a pattern generation script in grasshopper according to assignment instructions

For the assignment I followed the instructions provided in class to create the mesh however I was getting an error when connecting my nodes "Planar surface routine returned no results".

This error was actually not easy to solve online because the error was not in the node that was failing but in the python code that produced the curves. When I printed the results, I saw there was a message that said "invalid curve" on the list of curves and this was because the nested for was comparing two points on the same position and because they were under the minimum distance a curve was created between a point and itself, which was an invalid curve.

I created an extra parameter to control the Kinks and cap type to be able to have curved ends in the lines that did not fully intersected

I setup the following parameters for my file and nodes and the code as corresponding to the tutorial with the correction for the iteration over the same points

I played with the parameters to create a complex and a simple tile and compare the times for both. In my case both designs took a small amount of time. However, the complex tile showed an error message but I was unable to find out what was wrong with the model since nothing showed up highlighted on the 3D model and I was able to slice both

I explored different previews in cura that showed how the model would be printed and an xray view of the model