Week 8- 3D printing

This week we were tasked with taking screenshots of ten areas that were either residential, commercial, rural, urban. high rise, or industrial. We used Google Earth to accomplish this. I took screenshots from places both in the U.S and around the world. These are the screenshots I gathered.

  

Week 5- Laser cut : Cube

This week my group started the laser cutting section. Our first assignment was to create a 3 inch by 3-inch cube with sides that fit perfectly together using notches and tabs. The medium that we used was Baltic Birch. The blueprints were created in Adobe Illustrator using the pen tool, the shape tool, and the shape builder tool.

       To create the perfect cube, we had to do some math to make sure that all of the pieces fit together correctly. We calculated that the female sides, the sides that the notches were cut out of, had to be 3 by 3 inches with 1/8th of an inch notches. The male sides, the sides with the tabs, had to be 2 and 3/4 ths of an inch by 2 and 3/4 ths of an inch with 1/8th of an inch tabs. The hybrid sides, which had both tabs and notches, had to be 3 inches by 2 and 3/4 ths of an inch. After we figured out the math we went to Illustrator to construct the sides. We started by using a 24 inch by 12-inch art board to match the size of the material we would be cutting in the laser. Then, to make sure that everything was precise, we turned on the grid and rulers in the software. After creating one of each kind we just copied and pasted another one so that we would have two of each side. Then we made sure that the stroke was set to .0001 inches to make sure that the laser would cut it. Finally, we saved the document as a Illustrator C6 legacy file so that we could open it on the computer connected to the laser.

     After my cube was all cut and finally assembled this was the final result.