Record Assignment 2a Screen Shot
Description: This assignment required us to make a box with a very specific function. This box is intended to encase and disable a hand.
Material: 1/8″ mirrored acrylic plexi
(file included after the next assignment)
Record Assignment 2b Screen Shot
Description: This assignment asked us to make a box intended to be a scaffolding structure for a skin made in a different material.
Material: 1/8″ MDF
Files: Compressed Box Assignments
CONVERSATION STARTERS [for meditations on who how when and why contemporary art intersects with cnc/cad/cam/digital fabrication]
Please refer to this document for hours and policies for the 2012 CMU Doherty Hall lasercutter: hours & policies.
This is a simple geometric box that I created by drawing a sphere in Rhino then changing it to a mesh with a very small number of polygons.
I created planes from the mesh and unrolled the planes to form a template. Then I added in tabs so that I could fold it up and glue it together.
Algorithmic design for laser cutting:
Other design based on an object from life:
I used my large, red scarf as the basis for this design. I really like it.
dFAB LASER CUTTER TRAINING
- meet at Marge Morrison’s dFAB facilities at 8.30AM sharp
- bring your files for the first assignment (on flash memory or accessible online)
Design two boxes with the following design specifications:
ONE
- a single material with the following properties
- Length + Width + Height less then 18 inches
- no hardware necessary
- visually communicates its purpose
TWO
- made of two different materials
- Length + Width + Height less then 18 inches
- composed of “Skeleton” and “Skin”
LEFTOVERS
- if you haven’t registered for an account on this side, do
- if you haven’t filled in a complete profile for your account (name, contacts, photo), do
Two designs, in Rhino, to be laser cut (keep it under 24″ x 18″)
- Algorithmic: Start with a basic shape, repeat a process systematically (e.g. the repeated diminution exercise in class). Make the necessary adjustments in the model to allow it to be laser cut.
- Based on the real world: take a top-down (bird’s eye) perspective photograph of a real-world object, import the image into “Top” transport of rhino, and model it with lines and curves; make the necessary adjustments in the model to allow it to be laser cut.
- In both exercises, consider what material you would use and why.
- Upload both models to Black board before Monday morning’s class.
