Biber-Plugin: Introduction “A full tool set for parametric joinery” by Ali Torabi

Introduction digital production with Biber

Assemble:Components to build up an “assembly” with brep-object:

• “Breps to PPS”: Converts a set of intersecting planar breps to a PPS (Planar Poly-Surface) which can be used for creating an assembly
• “Assemble”: Takes an input polygon-surface and create an assembly from its planar polygons. Faces and polygons are converted to 3d Shells , edges are converted to Joints and vertices to the Node elements

Adding shell-type for object-thickness:

• “Negative Shell”: The entire shell is created on the negative side the face (polygon). The negative side of the face is the opposite to the face normal.
• “Shell-Type”: The entire shell is created on the negative side the face (polygon). The negative side of the face is the opposite to the face normal.

• Disassemble and bake to Rhino  “Disassemble Shell”: Explode an assembly to its components. (Shells, Joints and Node). Each of these sub-components may or may not have a poly-surface representation.
• “Shell Geometry”: Create,unfold and labels the parts for fabrication.

Create different joint type:

• “Dovetail doint”: Defines how multiple parts are treated along a common edge.
• “Dovetail joint setting”: Provides all the settings for the dovetail joint

“Unfold”:  geometry for digital production with “Open nest”

• Solid (Brep): The solid geometry of the part if exist
• Raw part (Curve): The polyline around the part on the top plane. You may use this for nesting.
• Sheets (Curve): Sheets used for nesting the parts
• Nested Parts (Brep): Parts after nesting.
• Part Labels (Curve): Labels of the assembled parts (3d).
• Nested Part Labels (Curve): Labels of the nested parts (2d).
• Transforms (Transform): Use this transformation to transform objects from the assembly to the nesting

Summary