making solid braids

[madmaze]

Hi Jaredly,

I've been tinkering with your scripts a bit and I'm trying to arrive at a simple solid 3-strand braid. I am not very familiar with blender and how you can turn a surface into a full solid. Was wondering whether you could give some pointers or perhaps even update your scripts to include a "solid" option.

I end up with this after tinkering with your example 1: http://i.imgur.com/2aRE5IK.png

Thanks,

Maze

[jaredly]

What do you mean by "solid"? Do you want a cap on the end? In blender, there's not really the notion of a "solid". There are just surfaces.

[madmaze]

Thanks for the quick response! I'm looking to 3d print it, so I need makerware or repG to see it as a solid so it doesn't just print the shell. I'm not very familiar with the process coming from blender, usually I use OpenSCAD for this.

[jaredly]

ok, great. All you need (I believe) is to set the "fill caps" option of the curve. Then you will have an object which, from the perspective of a 3d printer, is "solid".

[jaredly]

Or, if you want a smother cap, you can use a "taper object". I've added an example to the repo, "capped_braid.blend" with both kinds.

[madmaze]

Fantastic! Thanks

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Or, if you want a smother cap, you can use a "taper object". I've added an example to the repo, "capped_braid.blend" with both kinds. [image: screen shot 2013-10-12 at 9 49 32 am]https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/112170/1320369/3d9a3796-3356-11e3-86ac-890c0dcf568f.png

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[jaredly]

let me know if you print it - I'd love to see how it turns out.

[madmaze]

will do

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let me know if you print it - I'd love to see how it turns out.

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[madmaze]

Banana for scale: http://imgur.com/a/d5VYK =)

On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Matthias Lee matthias.a.lee@gmail.comwrote:

will do

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let me know if you print it - I'd love to see how it turns out.

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[jaredly]

awesome!

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Banana for scale: http://imgur.com/a/d5VYK =)

On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Matthias Lee matthias.a.lee@gmail.comwrote:

will do

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let me know if you print it - I'd love to see how it turns out.

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