Project 2 printed successfully!

  After 28 or so valiant attempts, I have finally printed my second project. Whilst the problem with my script was still unknown, It began to print perfectly in halves once I made all the boxes as large as the ones on the outside edge at full scale. It also allowed me to create a unique piece of art which resembles that of an impact point. As the attractor hits the base, the geometric attraction is created to form a crater around the impact point (the dead centre).

After finally printing my second model successfully, I began to clean it up with a dremel. Here are some pictures.

dremel to clean it up

Project 3 waffle script + pictures

Link to project 3 Waffle Script -

http://www.gamefront.com/files/24187688/Daniel_joseph_3332502_asssignment_3_benv2426.zip

First Kind of Successful attempt at 3d printing

This was my 23rd official attempt at 3d printing my second project. Although it printed pretty well, there are many things I was not happy about. Firstly, the supports are ridiculous and will be almost impossible to get rid of.. and secondly, the small cubes peeled away..

Time to rethink my design again..

Waffle Complete!

On Monday I went to the fabrication labs at 1:30pm and began to print my waffle script.

I spent 4 hours attempting to put it together, but it was a complete success.

Here are the pictures.

Another few attempts at 3d printing

As you will see from the images below - I attempted printing my 3d model again twice - each time, it screwed up after about 1 hour and 20-45 minutes. The problem kept arising with the build plate not being sturdy, and so Eliot suggested that perhaps changing the build plate to a thicker one would help. I did this, and thus, it may have fixed it.. (look below to next section of writing)

I have started a new print, and when I left, it had done 20% and looked very promising. I have never had a model get this far whilst printing ( apart from the original prototype I did in a small size.

Lets hope it works..then il have 1/4 done..

Waffle Done!

After more than about 5 hours with chris and myself, we managed to complete the script. We began by jotting down what we thought needed to be done. We said that firstly after creating our geometry, we wanted to create the sections in both the x y and z axis'.  We then learnt that the process would be much harder than we originally thought as we could not assign the planes to the appropriate sections of the model. After another 2-3 hours we both discovered how to do it, and so we realized that we needed to solid difference the two cut planes and then hide the inside


so we continued,  including things such as the changing the thickness of the 'teeth' (the little cutout pieces in which join the waffles together) as well as labeling both in the x and y axis (in which we labelled a and b).

After this, we looked to change the amount of the slices in both the x and y directions.

Here is a picture of the script, as well as the outcome screenshots!

I spent another 4 hours formatting the colours, labels and the overall layout, to ensure that it was aesthetically pleasing to the eye. Presentation is everything, after all !


A link to the file will be uploaded at a later date :)

Project 3 - Waffle Scripting

Today I began working on the 3rd project - the waffle script. We essentially have to create a waffling script which is universal for every model - in essence, you can plug in any rhino geometry and it will automatically waffle.

In order to do this, I created my geometry based upon the concept of my first project - the letter D - mirrored and curving in two directions.