Final Braclet Design

Had another go with TSplines and Grasshopper this afternoon. Here are the results, along with the process:

 

Here's my wire-frame that I will tsPipe out of existence.

 First attempt of the day. A bit boring for my tastes.

 That's more like it. This pipe includes added points to give it the vertical bars a diamond shape.

Again, I connected the bands with a cross-hatch pattern. This time there are more, I feel like the more there, the more support.

A quick render I did in Flamingo, just to give a sense of the whole object. I noticed upon rendering, that the cross-hatches were too thin, so I doubled their radii.

 

 

So fancy!

I plan on printed this in ABS, then giving the final print an Acetone vapor bath. This will yield a glorious, shiny wrist braclet!

Braclet Progress

This week, I've been busy rifling through the tutorials and videos on the awesome yet daunting Grasshopper plug-in for Rhino. Even better, I've been delving into some TSplines, notably: the tsPipe command. Thank you Autodesk for improving CAD software that you didn't even develop, am I right? Anyway, here's some progress I've made on the braclet. My idea is to make three separate bands that are connected by thin cross-hatches. Here's some shots:

 

An early tsPipe output.

 Final band design. I went with the a Diamond joint set and a radius of .02 (in).

 Here are the three together, now all we need to do is join them.

 Cross-hatches were HAND DRAWN IN, that was real fun.

 All together. Of course, I'm not satisfied. I think there should be more crosses, but less wide. They need to contrast the thickness of the band itself.