Category Archives: Form

Here we are, at the end of the semester. I’d like to take a moment to reflect on how far I have come and how much I have learned. I’ve become accustomed to Rhino (I wouldn’t say mastered, yet, but we are getting closer), I’ve learned how to 3D print, and I’ve learned I loveContinue reading “Final Project: Dreaming of Functionality”

In this lab we rendered the thing. Hurrah. I think this was, for me, the most frustrating lab to date. Mostly not a me problem, mostly a tech problem, which is almost worse. Fusion 360 does not play well with my little MacBook Air—it just does not want to give me images that look goodContinue reading “Lab 4: Rendering the Thing”

Well, here we are. Form lab three! In this lab, we are working with unrolling, or the art of modeling something in three dimensions, then making it into a shell that I can flatten out and unroll into a two dimensional plan. Think about something that can be printed out with a normal ink printer,Continue reading “Lab 3: Unrolling”

Part A: Model a Thing (then 3D print and laser cut it) Well, I have officially progressed from pretending to be useful to completely admitting my uselessness. Hurrah. In the last lab, I modeled a cute little star table, which could, with a little imagination, be considered functional. This lab, I modeled a mushroom. ItContinue reading “Lab 2: Cardboard Cutting”

To begin, this lab was really very fun. There were certainly moments of extreme frustration (WHYYY is this mug handle turning concave half way down??), but all the angst was worth it when I first held my little tiny star table in my hands, fresh off the 3d printer. Admittedly, it did not come outContinue reading “Lab 1: Quite A Process!”