Fractal in 3D CAD
Fractal in 3D CAD
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I'm interested in making a fractal pattern in 3D CAD like ProE or Solidworks.
Have any of you done this before?
Would you be willing to share an example?
Have any of you done this before?
Would you be willing to share an example?





RE: Fractal in 3D CAD
Anyway you could just export the 3d values as a point cloud from your fractal generator and then surface that cloud in CAD.
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Greg Locock
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RE: Fractal in 3D CAD
I was thinking something along the lines of the image below. It would certainly need to be generated by the equations, and not modeled piecewise... This is mostly a curiosity, a fun way to benchmark and compare systems.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hEM5vgawOcs/TmjUuInJtjI/...
RE: Fractal in 3D CAD
Cheers
Greg Locock
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RE: Fractal in 3D CAD
Regards,
Cockroach
RE: Fractal in 3D CAD
RE: Fractal in 3D CAD
You could probably write a VBA macro to generate said point cloud, but that's still not really SolidWorks creating it. The beauty of fractals (beyond just the pretty image) is the self-similarity at any scale. SolidWorks certainly can't create a static body with infinite self-similarity.
-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)
RE: Fractal in 3D CAD
Here's the IGES spec: http://www.uspro.org/documents/IGES5-3_forDownload...