IDS Center Atrium
Challenge
Working as an Innovations Consultant for DI remotely from India, I was asked to create a program that took heavy architectural CAD models of outdoor furniture each unique in its shape and size. The challenge was to convert them into MESH surfaces which could be directly be read by the printer’s software.
Solution
Using Grasshopper a computational design tool I created a script that would pick up a file from a specific folder, run an automatic design change required to make the model printable, and add internal infill (support). The script also went ahead and made the files required for the 5 axis milling side to create necessary pockets for each variable geometry based on certain known controllable factors.
Process
3D Printed Furniture installed in IDS Center Atrium in Minneapolis, Minnesota.