We started working with ideas of what our final will be, I decided to create book ends inspired by Portal. They are a remake of a design that was being sold years ago, but they no longer available.
The model lay will be like the original design with the little human going through the portal that will be made using wood instead of metal or aluminum. I originally wanted to do some kind of metal but with the design tools we have it would be hard to get it cut and laid out.
I started with with laying out the person and portal from the original design that was available and then extruded them to begin the design of the actual bookends.
When building the structure of the bookends I made them try to be as close to the original design, I made it be 4in by 6in having the design be .5 in in thickness. The thickness of the design will change based on the material that is actually available to me.
I modified it a little as I worked on the final form of the bookend and made sure that the actual portal would be cut through the wood piece in the design. It took some time to get the correct shape to appear on the block instead of it merging, I needed it to be cut through just the center.
The final design once completed should look similar to the how the next picture looks and should be the exact size I need so it can fit on my shelf and hold my albums together.
For this lab we had to make objects to unroll them using Rhino, and it was an easy but interesting process of creating and unrolling. I started off with creating a replica of a character names Van by BT21, it was pretty easy to mimic the design of the character and didn’t need a lot of unrolling. The first design was more for me to get a sense of what I wanted to do visually with the next object I was going to work with and give me more ideas towards something I wanted to really do.
I had the idea of using this model to create a fabric cutout and make my own character stuffed plush. I wasn’t able to fully create it in this iteration of the lab due to my lack of sewing skills but will keep the working on it and create my plush. From this I moved on to something I could actually work on rolling out and decided to do a Rose Bowl.
I wanted to make something that looked natural but still had some sort of function, and at the time I had scene a couple of different natural objects around me but what caught my eye more was how the shape of a rose was like a bowl. I started to design a similar shape of a rose into a bowl like shape, I used some different tools to make it like cage editing and extrusions. In order to make it look more like a rose I started to make the same shape in different sizes.
After I found the sizes I wanted to work with I tried unrolling it with the first method of meshing the object. I realized quickly that it wasn’t going to work out with this shape to use the mesh method, it became to complicated to even try to unroll it in this form.
I then tried the other method of extracting isocurves and created the shape by lofting the curves I had. This was a better option to creating the final roll out form of the object.
After I have the shape that I wanted I used the rhino tool to roll out the object with labels on it. I tried rolling it out in two different ways to see what the best way would be. One was separated into parts and the other one was basically flatten together so it was easier to cut out and create.
After designing the Rose Bowl I look at something else I always wanted to model and I found a couple designs of paper lamps I liked and started to create my own. I had a little trouble making it to my kind of style and the way I wanted it to look was a little hard to get the right way. I started off with one being very abstract to get into the design I wanted to have and then modified it in order to be something do able.
I finally got to a design I wanted using different curves and a lot of lofting. I was able to use the method of extracting isocurves in order to get the lamp to be rolled out.
Rolling out the lamp wasn’t hard at all and it looked great during the design process. I had some trouble in the printing part of making this lamp, I didn’t print out the parts in the correct sizing so every part would fit perfectly but I ended up trying to make it work.
I printed the lamp out on regular paper and then put it on card stock in order for it to have some structure when I was building it. I used simple tape to put it together and although it doesn’t look like my original design it didn’t turn out too bad. I looked back at how I printed it and realized my mistake, I later will print it out again to fix it. Apart from creating these I also printed out 3 objects with the 3D printer.
I wanted to make some objects that didn’t really relate to each other, I have always wanted some of these things so I decided to make them. The ring is a a wearable ring, it was a replica of the Halo ring that is shown in the game itself. It was a little hard to get the right sizing I actually had to print it out about 3 times before I got it to fit my finger. The cube is a small version of the companion cube piggy bank and from the picture you can see there is a whole at the top and its also hallow on the inside. I made it small because printing would have taken more than 7 hours to get a good size. The last object is a key chain that rotates, that one was a bit hard to get done because I had figure out how I could print it so that it was able to rotate. In the end I figure out that all you need to do was make it pointy at the top and bottom of the inside and have holes at those places, as well as printing them as one piece helped with having it smoothly rotate.
For lab 2 we started working with creating object and putting them into an extension of fusion 360 called slicer. I started off with a word design that was manipulated through different points, I wanted it to look different from the side view but have the word be readable in the front view.
I loaded the Rhino file into Fusion 360 in order to align the words and then I sent it to Slicer in order to make a printable sheet for the words.
In Slicer I was able to manipulate the way the slices where going to be made by changing the angles in the program and look at the step by step process of making it after lazer cutting the pieces. I did struggle with the sizing of the pieces at first, I had to print the entire thing again because my scaling wasn’t correct but in the end it came out correctly.
The final outcome was actually really nice compared to how long it took me in connecting all the pieces. I used hot glue in order to secure some of the pieces but it was mostly joined together by the way the cutting layout was made.
Lab 2 part B
Part B was about modeling a couple more objects to create an actual living space where the first object in part A would live. My object was made to live on a shelf with other collectibles similar to what this object is about, and that was mainly BTS.
I made a simple display case in a way that could fit on my shelf that also included ARMY, which is the name of the fan base, as well as the logo that was created for this group. I also 3D printed the object where it will actually now live on my shelf.
Lab 2 Part C
Part c of the lab was to create at least 3 joints from the 50 Wood Joints given to us and test them out. I decided to test out A Halved Dovetail corner and a finger tenons.
These were the Rhino files where created variations of the joints I was going to lazer cut. I struggled a little getting the 90 degree one to work and look the way I wanted it to look. In the end it came out perfect.
These were square finger joints that made puzzle pieces that did not make a box but left people a little confused.
This was another variation of the finger joints, but I made them interlock in a 90 degree angle so it would look like doors or wings.
This is the Halved Dovetail corner I made, it had no real purpose but to test out how it worked to cut the shapes. It does make for a good book mark or can become a nice frame.
Part A of Lab was a way of learning to use the tools given in Rhino, and they were used to make the different shapes. I used the various curves to create different objects and manipulated them in order to get the final image pattern in the image.
Part B of the lab was to learn how to use the surface tools in Rhino and create different objects using the commands that where given to us. I created two objects for each tool in order to get familiar with them and continued working with them on other projects.
Part C was to learn how to use the solid tools in order to create different objects and be able to manipulate the as well. I did two different renditions of each tool and made them different in order to see the difference between different objects.
Part D was to create some type of object using the different tools we learned to use. I made something simple that could hold small objects inside and made two of them using the cube, sphere, and a cone to make this object. I then used different surface tools and solid tools in order to cut down and manipulate the different shapes.
Part E was to model an existing object and I decided to do The Companion Cube. With the use of a picture and different curves I created an outline of a surface, then copied it onto a cube surface. I then extruded the lines to create a companion like cube object, and ended up with an amazing object. I still have a couple of things I need to tweak on the cube but its an amazing object that I work hard on.
First day of class was easier than I though it was going to be, and
learning more about rhino was very interesting. When first introduced to
rhino I was a little worried about learning it, it looked overwhelming
at first but after some practice with the different commands it became
easier. Having commands in the system itself made things a lot easier in
order get better control of rhino, and after 10 minutes of messing with
it I was able to figure out what I needed to do. Now I feel more
confident in using rhino.
For my final project I took the design I made in lab 4 and continued to work on it. I modified the project in order to be the size and have an easier way to combine pieces ones fabricated. I added joints to the 90 degree connection in order to make it easier to put it together and added the second layer that would hold the half circle that balances the bookend.
I was able to lazer cut the wood pieces with 1/4 inch thick in order to get the right form that I wanted. I was able to cut all the wood and acrylic for the portal image, then I took 3 hours to 3D print the portal guy in order to have it looking amazing in the end.
After cutting out the pieces and 3d printing I stained the wood a darker color, painted the acrylic the appropriate color of each portal and then glued everything together. I super glued the 3d pieces to the wood and it help everything together pretty well.
The final product came out better than I had expected and they turned out looking better than I expected. I was able to put them to the test and it worked with holding more than 15 albums together. The sizing was perfect and it looked great after I had stained the wood and added the painted acrylic. Now it sits on my shelf holding all of my Kpop albums together.
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