Here is my final product in Shapeways! I chose to use polished copper as my material. Though it took a very long time to make my file approved by shapeways, I'm glad that it was finally accepted after a lot of tweaking. I'm disappointed that I was unable to make a prototype in our shops because I was sick on the days when I would have had the opportunity to do so, but I hope that it does not negatively impact my final product.
Embedded Files
Because this is a necklace pendant, it needs a hook to be able to hang on a necklace. It took me a lot of tries (like - 10 tries!) to create a hook that worked with the file, because the hook was interfering with the other shapes on the pinecone. I kept on recieving error emails such as this one, saying "model is not manifold". Finally, my solution was just to adjust the size of the hook so it didn't touch too many of the pinecone components at once, and that ended up working.
I had a lot of issues with these little "twigs" that I assume were a byproduct of the grasshopper file. I could not get them to go away!
I tried boolean difference, split, trim, and many other commands, but none of them worked for me.
Parts of the shapes were lines, like this, and others looked more like surface components.
Thankfully, Samu was able to solve this issue for me, as my limited Rhino knowledge was not enough to troubleshoot these weird shapes.
This is the final general shape that I settled on to properly replicate the pinecone. Also, because I wanted the pendant to be solid (not hollow), I created a line that traced along the edge of the pinecone and revolved it around to create an inner shape.
Samu showed me how to use the "cage edit" command to change the shape of my surfacemorph component. I was able to create the pinecone shape that I was looking for! This command overwhelmed my computer, though, so I had to borrow Samu's for some of the cage edit tweaking.
The grasshopper command that I used to create this shape was "surfacemorph". I created a geometry (top right image) to panel around a sphere. This created the shape shown in the bottom right image - a good basis for the shape that I was trying to achieve, but not quite there yet.
Moodboard
Because I am leaving California next year for college, I wanted to create some sort of necklace pendant that is reminiscent of Californian nature (which might be what I will miss the most). I settled on the design of a redwood pinecone, because the shape is super interesting and unique and I also had an idea for how to replicate it on Rhino. The redwood pinecone is shown in the two top left photos in my moodboard.
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