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Adaptive Finger Joints for Streamlined Design of Laser-Cut Structures
The worst part about designing laser-cut structures in SolidWorks is CADing all of the finger joints between components; even if you use a boolean for half, you need to CAD or pattern one side, and neither is all that nice. Since I dabble in programming (and wanted an excuse to script something), I took a hack at making a… -
Re: Adaptive Finger Joints for Streamlined Design of Laser-Cut Structures
@brucebartlett, thanks for the feedback. I made a design choice when writing the feature to give priority to the constraints on pin size, rather than the number; I should've named that "preferred number of pins" instead. This is so that if I use a single feature to connect 10 parts of widely varying sizes to a single base…
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