Thank you Chris and Gullfo,

yet, starting point is the standard size of the plywood
and not having to make cuts before hand.

Making use of standard sized plywood,
bend it onto a desired shape,
with an overlap, to be able to determine the boltpositions
and finally know the cutpatterns for top & bottom

I really don't know how this can be modeled in a way it is easy to experiment.
in Sketchup or any 3d software.

yet I guess this workflow might be a bit too much to ask from your plugin,
anyway, I really appreciate your work,

thanks again,

Jasper

Hello,

perhaps a shot in the dark, hopefully a suggestion or otherwise a cue for anybody that can point me in a good direction to work with this:

An experiment, using standard plywood boards, bolted together.
the idea is that if bending plywood, the structural capacity of the plywood becomes higher,
thus, being able to make a light weight skin roof that can support itself.

Now, my quest is how to bolt a bunch of plywood boards together to form a sort of
conics tipi roof.

I hoped Shapebender would get me there,

draw up a grid of plywood boards and being able to bend them in a desired shape,
in order to find out:

• optimum plywood pattern
• where to make the bolt holes
• where the cutlines would be for top and bottom of the roof

possible workflow:

• to bend the plywood boards around a surface,
• then to be able to make markings on the different boards,
• then to unbend
• and have straight boards again for scaled drawings for:
  cut patterns and bolting positions

yet I discovered that Shapebender will stretch the boards...
does anybody know how this can be solved?

the idea of bending plywood I found at
http://conicshelter.com/

thank you,

Jasper

below image
left back: started testing bending boards,
front: a preferred conic shape:

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