MeshWorks for Rhino, a Rhino plug-in, offers a range of mesh handling functions to Rhino.
One of the most useful commands in MeshWorks for Rhino is the Hollow command, which hollows the mesh to a specific wall thickness. This feature is particularly essential when preparing a model for rapid prototyping as it saves material, time, and money during the building of a prototype. Other exciting commands added by MeshWorks for Rhino include Offset, PointsToMesh, Stitch, FillHoles, ExtractSolid, ExtractPlanarSurfaces, ExtractShells, ExtractSurfaces, ExtractFeatures, ExtractBoundaries, SplitMesh, Smoothen, and Decimate.
The Offset command allows you to shrink or expand a mesh, while the PointsToMesh command enables you to create a mesh from a set of points. The Stitch command is also quite powerful as it can knit loosely-tied faces of the mesh and make it water-tight. If you have a mesh with holes, the FillHoles command can add faces to the mesh to fill any gaps.
With ExtractSolid, you can separate a solid from a mesh, while ExtractPlanarSurfaces allows you to extract a planar trimmed NURBS surface from a mesh. ExtractShells allows you to extract connected surfaces from a single mesh and create a new mesh for each connected surface. ExtractSurfaces, on the other hand, extracts surfaces of a mesh and creates a new mesh for each surface. ExtractFeatures allows you to extract features of a mesh and create a NURBS model from a polygon mesh.
The plugin also has ExtractBoundaries, which extracts the boundaries of an open mesh. And with SplitMesh, you can split a mesh with a planar surface into two parts. In addition, MeshWorks for Rhino features the Smoothen command, which relaxes a mesh by removing sharp edges, and the Decimate command, which can reduce the number of faces of a mesh while maintaining continuity in the topology.
The MeshWorks plugin adds a new menu to the Rhino menu containing all the added commands. It's simply a matter of using this menu to manipulate meshes whenever you want to use any of the commands. In conclusion, MeshWorks for Rhino is a game-changer for anyone who works with meshes. It's an efficient and powerful plugin that will make your modeling tasks much easier and quicker.
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