OpenNest by Petras Vestartas is a Grasshopper plugin with tools for unrolling, packing and of course nesting curves directly inside the definitions. The library is based on Boost 1.62 that is used to compute NFP – No Fit Polygon. For now it consists only of 1 component that is located in Grasshopper: Params tab -> Nest Categary.
In this Grasshopper Dendro example file, you can use the Trap Field component from the Heteroptera plugin to generate a series of random connecting curves between two faces.
In this Grasshopper tutorial for beginners, you can learn how to model a parametric box ring from scratch without using any plugins.
In this Grasshopper Kangaroo example file you can design a parametric earring using the circle packing technique.
In this Grasshopper example file you can design a parametric Louver facade using the Pufferfish Plugin.
In this Grasshopper example file you can design a parametric building using the native grasshopper components.
In this Grasshopper Dendro tutorial, you can learn how to create a growing mesh by defining a series of spin fields on a NURBS surface using the Heteroptera plugin.
In this Grasshopper Tutorial for beginners you will learn how to use the Sphere collide component to generate evenly distributed holes on a NURBS surface.
In this Grasshopper Kangaroo example file, you can circle pack a mesh using the "TangentIncircles" component.
In this Grasshopper example file, you can utilize the Nautilus plugin to design a parametric Twisted Torus.
In this Grasshopper example file, you can model twisted torus strips and convert them into a spaceframe and panels using the Lunchbox Plugin.
In this Grasshopper example file, you can convert a series of curves into a mesh with a 3d groove pattern using the Nautilus and Weaverbird plugins.
In this Grasshopper tutorial, you will learn how to model a parametric joint on the corners of a box with controllable parameters.
In this Grasshopper example file, you can simulate an optimized path from an origin point/points toward a set of targets. The strategy involves branching at diverging points.
In this Grasshopper example file, you can model a staircase detail drawing from the plan view and easily change the parameters.
In this Grasshopper example file, you can design a parametric facade using four different techniques.
In this Grasshopper contour tutorial, we will learn how to extract a series of solids from a part of a mesh by defining the direction and length with a single line.
In this Grasshopper Millipede tutorial, you can learn how to model a series of smooth connecting columns to a roof and then analyze it using Millipede's Finite Element Analysis.
In this Grasshopper Kangaroo tutorial, you can discover how to simulate the flow of a series of particles on a solid and then convert it into a mesh.
In this Grasshopper tutorial, you can learn how to generate Perlin noise on a surface and convert it into a solid.
In this Grasshopper tutorial, we will learn how to generate a structural grid from a series of grid points.
In this Grasshopper tutorial, we will explore how to create a simple parametric gear and a radial mechanism, and also include an example file for the Iris mechanism.
In this Grasshopper tutorial, we will learn how to create a series of parametric solids using the "Tangent Arcs" component.
In this Grasshopper tutorial, we will model a parametric brick wall on a NURBS surface with a rectangular projection. We can also adjust the thickness of the bricks based on point attractors.
Comments
antonia lopez
How does it work connecting a curve to a polyline? because it doesnt allow me.
rezae
Hi Hernan.
So you have to extract the outline of your geometry first and use it as input in OpenNest.
In order to Nest rest of the geometry you can use the generated Transformation values from the OpenNest output to transform the geometries based on given outlines
You can see this example :Voronoi Panels
Cfeldman
Wouldn’t it be easier to make a tutorial correctly explaining how “OpenNest” works?
(1) the definition of Voronoi Panels, to which you refer,
It seems quite long and complicated, to clearly illustrate the explanation of the question asked…
,(2) On the other hand, just by downloading and opening that definition of “”voronoi panels””, you will find a lot of previous orange commands, which do not even allow you to see the correct result of the opennest).
Wouldn’t it be possible to make a tutorial to correctly understand the errors that occur in OpenNest?
Thank you
Cfeldman
Attachment opennest-oranges.jpg
Opennest file, from Voronoi Panels Tutorial