VIDEO TUTORIAL: https://youtu.be/libPPCl_S0U
GH DEFINITION: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1XYm4NmrBdxTFdDlkruw4OP7ju0aYu6QE
Hello makers!
Laziness drives all progress.
Generator does following - you draw an outline curve in Rhino 6, and it spits out finished cutter model according to parameters given. Saves quite a lot of time :)
Recently I found myself creating cookie cutters in Rhino 6. Since I wanted to do a couple of them, I made myself a little GH definition, that was doing repetitive stuff for me.
That brought me to an idea - idea of making complete definition, where you insert curve and it returns completed cutter ready for printing straight away. Facing lots of problems in the process, I found it worth sharing with you all.
I made it as bulletproof as I could, implemented analysis, made everything organised and readable, and covered whole creation process in detailed video tutorial, that you can watch on my YT channel.
I wanted that even people who do not usually do 3D modelling are able to create themselves what they want using my generator.
It's up to you to test, whether I met my goal or not :)
And of course I added some finished models for you. All of them were created using my generator.
I want to wish you all merry christmas, have a nice time and happy printing!
Feel free to give some feedback or ask me anything related.
I am learning GH myself so I appreciate any advice or ideas that help me improve
Object is not very hard to print, so I leave it up to you.
0.5mm wide cutting edge is printable with 0.4 nozzle.
Your chamfer won't be very nice though, because of transitioning from 2 perimeters to 1.
Print PLA, because rigidity
I personally used 0.25 nozzle, setup included in Setup.3mf file.
I use my own starting G-code, you may test it and disable it eventually.
Even with smaller nozzle, print times for average sized cutters are 1.5-3h, which is OK
The author hasn't provided the model origin yet.