Beck's AUArts Blog

A few weeks ago, I did a test print where I didn't realize how small my pieces were. This was mainly as a way to show an initial proof of concept. On both my finished piece and test model, the tree branches can rotate freely on a 3d printed axis. My revised version I scaled up and used the same model, so it was taller with more slices. For the finished piece, I ended up laser cutting my pieces before we covered the numbering and spines. For the circles acting as the spine, I just used the centroid and copied a circle to each piece. As for organizing the pieces, I knew that they were going to be sorted from largest to smallest, with repeat sizes creating a dip in the tree design. Finished piece: Bonus: Around the second week or so of this project, I decided to laser cut the slices of my original concept. Since it was before the class we learned about the spines I found that I struggled quite a bit with alignment. With the tree, I ended up just copying circles into the center so I wa...

Revised Design in bounding box: Some feedback I got from the class was to consider the direction that my design is going towards. In particular, which way the "arrow" part of my design faced. I decided that I liked it with the box shape facing up. One critique was to improve the support for the corners, specifically the way some intersections hang with little support. Because I'm using a lattice structure, Bryan mentioned that I could deal with delicate parts by increasing the thickness of the print or else I could use an underlying form as a support structure. Since we will be using clear resin, I plan to use this feedback to create a low relief design for final print using an underlying form. Along with the feedback regarding structure, it was mentioned that the way I set up my piece made it so that new iterations would be fast without changing the surface design. This came with the idea to explore more forms. Overall, I made 14 shapes using the revolve tool in rhino, b...