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There is a variety of 3D printers online who apply a sine wave function to the gcode path in blender and rhino/grasshopper that creates a very interesting effect on a 3d printed model. When you import a model into blender, you can slice it into printable layers with tissue and can do some minor manipulation, however to get a consistent sine wave...i'm a little lost. I think you would use geometry nodes and scaling in the x and y axis but I'm lost after that. Any ideas?

here is a good example where the gif was actually also rendered in blender: https://twitter.com/tnctrekit/status/1482906930758651907?s=20&t=ibYqjaO9CFS29ykF0TbC7A

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with this node setup you can get a sin distortion on your curve:

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The "normal/xy" expands the sine on the normal or just flat on xy plane.

result:

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    – Chris
    Commented Mar 12, 2022 at 21:43
  • $\begingroup$ I'm sorry I am very new to this, how do I add the point along the curve, when I adjust the wave height and whatnot the whole curve just gets smaller not in a sine pattern. Also, Where do I actually input my curve into the nodes If I'm working with something other than the spiral in the example you gave? $\endgroup$
    – quantumice
    Commented Mar 13, 2022 at 0:10
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    $\begingroup$ imgur.com/a/WlXu7Pi here is what I have so far you can see in the gif the problem I'm having $\endgroup$
    – quantumice
    Commented Mar 13, 2022 at 0:19
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Here is example in sverchok, how i doing that. Reparametrise with curve object and work with adaptive edge node. gist to import: https://gist.github.com/4df5dc4c55524dc852a5673766349ec3

sverchok spiral example

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This is one node setup that achieves something similar. In this setup I chose to use the bend object along path node. bend-on-path-setup

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