Guitar Shapeshifter – a Rhinoceros 3d and Grasshopper Routine for extracting guitar bodies from a curve

This Grasshopper routine generates an acoustic guitar body from a curve drawn in Rhino.

The controllable parameters are:

Top radius
Top thickness
Back radius
Back thickness
Side thickness
Soundhole yes/no
Soundhole diameter
Soundhole location from top
Body thickness at heel
Body thickness at tail

Please note this routine requires the Pufferfish plugin for Grasshopper, (version 1.0 also requires the Human plugin) both of which are available for free from food4rhino.com

Download “Guitar Shapeshifter for Rhino 8”

Guitar-Shapeshifter-v1-1.zip – Downloaded 6 times – 1.61 MB

The above version is the latest version 1.1, which has updated bake functionality available in Rhino 8.

If you are running Rhino 7, I believe the old 1.0 version (below) will work – if anyone can confirm this please send me an email.

Download “Guitar Shapeshifter”

Guitar-Shapeshifter-instructions-1.zip – Downloaded 99 times – 3.31 MB

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