Hi all, Imagine a sphere or whatever simple surface. Now imagine a hexagonal grid like a mesh. what I want to do is to bend over this grid over the sphere so the new object will be a spherical hexagonal grid. Is there any way to do that? I believe Sandbox does not quite do what I want as it just…

Hi there, It may not be exactly the right solution for a spherical hexagonal grid, but you may want to try the CLF Shape Bender extension and see if this helps you get a little bit closer to the forms you’re looking for. Alternatively, you might also try combining extensions like Soap Skin Bubble …

The first time I played with CLF Shape Bender it crashed my Sketchup but I will give it one more try even if it only allows following a single line instead of a surface so Im not very optimistic about it. With Soap Skin I always get awkward surfaces that dont fit inside my line, dont ask me…

[image] joaquimssousa: What I want to do is to bend over this grid over the sphere so the new object will be a spherical hexagonal grid. The term Geodesic Sphere comes to mind. These pages may be of interest: TaffGoch’s Geodesic Help Group https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/GeodesicHe…

Hi, Those are very nice Geodesic domes! But I couldn’t find any plugin that would allow me to define the relative size of the sphere and the hexagon. Therefore I’m limited to choose from the available drawings on the 3D Warehouse. Unfortunately none resembles what I want to do which is the mesh cov…

maybe use a texture instead? just using a random texture i found online then fredo’s ThruPaint to apply it:

Thanks for the idea but the problem with a texture is that it is repetitive but not in a totally controlled way and applying a series of rectangles over a dome surface will not result very well. Besides that there is the problem of the transparency as the hexagons are not all solid but actually …

valid points but not really :wink: • speaker grill is supposed to be repetitive, right? • some pretty good extensions out there for mapping/controlling (like ThruPaint)… • use a transparent texture… and hey, i’m not saying this is the best way (though it’s certainly the easiest… the longest p…

Is this the sort of geometry you are after?

Wow!!! This is exactly what I’m looking for! :smile: How did you do that?

This is great!!! I didn’t yet play with that plugin but it looks promising. There is however one small problem, even if I find or replicate that texture which is the tridimensionality that doesn’t exist with a texture.

Bending an object over a surface

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Geo January 7, 2015, 4:05pm 4

The term Geodesic Sphere comes to mind.
These pages may be of interest:

TaffGoch’s Geodesic Help Group
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/GeodesicHelp/DolXrzpzAQs

TaffGoch’s 3D Warehouse Collection

Domerama
http://www.domerama.com/

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Bending an object over a surface

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