Transformer:
“Change an object's form by translating and/or rotating its rigid components.”
Square Shutter
“Use polygons with right angles as a shutter.”
Square Shutter
Scissor Arm
“Model a scissor mechanism, that is, an arm whose horizontal extension is controlled by its handle's vertical movement along a line.”
There is probably an easier way, and I think it could just involve using regular family lines and parameters with some trig, but I‘ve shown it here with a bunch of nested adaptive components using a drafting mentality.
How to make the scissor
Scissor flexing. Soundtrack by Cimota God.
Download the rfa files from here
[Edit: Here’s is an alternate/improved method supplied by Aristide Little-Lex]
Zach, once again these are great. It's really exciting seeing the CDE being used in for these advanced ideas.
ReplyDeleteI remember seeing this done in GC back at the Smart Geometry in Waterloo Canada at least 5 years ago and spending at least a day trying to get Revit 5 to do the same thing. Many of these things were being thought about when we designed the Conceptual Design Environment!
But now you have to make a printable version, like this :) : http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4458