Pave array tuto? anybody

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Permalink Reply by Gene Bauer on March 12, 2010 at 1:01pm

Hi Marco,
I've only been working with Rhino for about a year. But I've found that ArrayCrvOnSrf works relatively well. A cool plugin is ArrayCrvPlus. So is Armadillo.

http://jarek-rhinoscripts.blogspot.com/2008/12/arraycrvplus-v20.html

Pat Schmidt has a tutorial on YouTube about creating pave style settings and cutters.

Chris Botha has a DVD available with at least one video which details some basic pave.

http://sites.google.com/site/digitaljeweller/

Hope this helps. Gene

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Permalink Reply by Marco D'Arcangelo on March 12, 2010 at 1:22pm

Hi Gene and thank you so much for your kind reply and links, I'm in fact very interested to move into some Script design myself, the ArrayCrvPlus looks indeed very interesting and I was already considering 'Paving' extracting Isocurves from the surface and operate with an Array along a Curve on surface..well it's manual paving and it may not be very accurate but.., I'm sure this plugin will come handy and so the CD from Chris, I think I may splash out on this....I'm not a jewellery design myself but I'm getting hooked more and more by jewel design as a form of passion....anyway.

it's a splendid Rhino community....

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Permalink Reply by Matt Bennett on March 12, 2010 at 1:31pm

Hi Marco,

You should contact Brian DiNola at JBD Studio. He's been putting together some jewelery tools for Rhino. If you go to his website, then click the "Programming" link, scroll to the bottom of the page. You will see an example of a gem layout tool.

www.jbdstudio.com

If you contact him, he may have something done already, or may be able to put something together for you.

Hope this helps,

Matt Bennett
BeavCo

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Permalink Reply by Marco D'Arcangelo on March 12, 2010 at 2:19pm

Thanks, I was sure that I could find a right answer to my question, there is so much to learn and practice and so little time...the coding tool is very interesting indeed as for the Armadillo plugin (not far from the ArrayCrvPlus but I think it has more features....)

Thanks again ; ) I'm an happy camper

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