| When: | Week 2, 30 Sep 2014 |
| Where: | CIID |
| Records: | Notes, Video, Audio, Reflection worksheets |
| Background: | 3d Printing Guru |
Insights
The dream is to be able to replicate any physical creation in a 3D printer.
Let’s not use software for creating 3d objects.
“There is this dream of the Xerox of 3D printing, to make an exact copy of an object.”
It takes a lot of thought to visualize stuff in 3D. Building stuff by hand is way faster than building stuff by mouse. I’d rather manipulate a piece of clay than use the software.
Existing 3d modeling software is cumbersome
123D is really basic. I use it because it’s free and fairly straightforward. But it’s full of bugs. The UI doesn’t make sense.
Solidworks has a steep learning curve.
Learning how to use software is a combination of video tutorials and hacking around.
Peter uses James Bruton’s YouTube tutorials.
“This is when I just start hacking around. i’m pretty sure that there’s a better way to do this, i just don’t know it.”
Replicating a model
Many interactions are superfluous and seem to limit creativity of expression.
- draw rectangle
- type in dimensions
- draw another rectangle
- delete rectangle
- draw another rectangle
- rotate view
- select parts to keep
- extrude
- draw circle on the sketch
- draw the circle on midpoint of edge
- draw another circle on the sketch
- extrude both circles
- rotate
- create lots of lines to cut the part
- extrude the cut part
- rotate, create a 2d shape to cut the part again
- get the center of the rectangle by drawing diagonals
- circle at the center
- extrude the circle
- delete all unncessary lines
Other terms used
- Draw a square
- Draw inside the sketch
- Draw inside the grid (separate “mode” than drawing inside the sketch)
Reflection Worksheets
