Reading Day

I had to come in on reading day to finish gluing together my lamp and cut out my base. I got there late, so there was a long lien of people waiting to go before me, so I had to wait until after lunch to get my base parts back. Then I sanded the visible side as best I could (some fo the really thin parts ended up breaking off), cut out four sheets of paper, glued the paper onto the panels, and put the entire thing together, along with the candle..

05.26.23 cw

Now that I had my panels, I needed to design the base. I basically just made it extremely simple because nobody would’ve looked at this base anyways since it was on the bottom. I made sure that its joinery matched excatly with the joinery on my panels so that they’d fit perfectly together. I also made the ring above it, which, after it’s glued, would be the holder for the candle I would have to insert into it. However, I ran out of time to print the base itself, so I had to wait until reading day.

05.23.23 cw

Now that I had all four panels done, I fixed up some small errors/places Fusion kept messing up, and then I extruded them. However, for some reason, when I tried to put my sketches into Rhino, my sketched kept getting messed up. Lines would either be missing or in the wrong place. So, I basically just took all of my extruded parts and projected them to make a new dxf file, which still did not work. So I ended up just manually fixing my sketches in Rhino using commands since I didn’t know what the problem was. I finally started printing my panels, but could’t get them done before class ended, so I had Mr. Brodie collect them for me afterwards.

05.22.23 cw

I finished making my fourth and final panel, which was the anchor.

05.22.23 hw

I fixed some errors I had made in my third panel and finished making it (after fusion finally decided to work again).

05.19.23 cw

By the time I got to making my third panel, I had used so many splines that fusion started to crash, so my progress got slower as it went on. I began making my third panel.

05.19.23.hw

I worked on the second panel for the luminary. I tried to make it look distinctively different form my first panel so that it wouldn’t look too boring by adding teeth, changing its tail, and adding the hook back, but much smaller this time.

05.15.23 cw

Today for classwork I worked on designing my 3d piece on my desk organizer since I had previously forgotten about it. I had to change my previous design to make it more functional, os instead of making it so that it could be taken off and the pciture inside it can be replaced, I made it so that there was a slot on top of the picture frame for you to slide the picture into. however, because there was a gap in the middle of the object, I would’ve had to use supports to print it,w hcih would’ve been much mroe compicated. So, I used the split tool to split my picture frame in half so that I only had to print the two halves and then glue them together for it to work. I sent my 3d file to Mr. Brodie.

05.15.23 hw

For homework I worked on the first panel for my luminary. I decided tomake the majority of the fish head hollow so that more negative space would show through. At first I was going to include a large hook at the bottom of its tail, but Mr. Brodie told me that it was too clunky and large, so I remade the bottom section to match with the overall style of the panel better. I used a lot of splines for this project.

05.12.23 cw

Today in class I finished my entire desktop organizer! I finished glueing my last piece in, and it is all very strong and stable. I tested all of its functions by sliding the drawer in and out (it fits perfectly) and putting all sorts of stuff in its holders. I ended up deciding to leave my desktop organizer in two components: the drawer and pencil stand, and the book holder.

05.09.23 cw

Today in class I finished sanding and gluing all the pieces of all 3 main components of my desktop organizer. I just need to wait for the glue to completely dry with the rubber bands keeping it in place to finish gluing together the last piece.

05.09.23 hw

For homework I finalized my concept sketch for the luminary, which I had decided on to be the fishbones idea. I decided to make trhee of the panels pictures of different types of fish sketeltons, and the last one would be an anchor submerged in water for some variety.

05.03.23 cw

I continued working on my desktop organizer by gluing in some of the parts and sanding them. In class, I also worked on finishing up and polishing some of my luminary sketch ideas. I settled on the fishbone design because I thought it was very unique and would be fun to make, and I began modelling it in Fusion. First I had to make the four side pieces, which is what I am doing right now –>

05.03.23

Since I was exempted last class, I had to work on the previous day’s homework today. Since I kind of already made some luminary sketches that related to myself personally, I decided to make two more purely aesthetic-based sketches and some more personal ones.

05.02.23 cw

I was late to class because of my AP Exam, so I just worked on sanding some of my already cut-out pieces and gluing them together.

05.02.23 hw

I was exempted from homework because of my morning AP Exam.

05.01.23 cw

Finished cutting out all the pieces for my organizer, and it all works this time! I began putting my pieces together to see if it would fit all fit together. I then decided to start gluing in some of my pieces.

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05.01.23 hw

I finished making four sketches for my luminary lamp. The first, fourth, and third ones are very story based, so I enjoyed making them. However, they might be a bit too complicated to cut out on Fusion.

04.28.23 cw

The laser cutter was occupied, so I spent the class working on my thumbnail sketches for my luminary project. The first design I immediately thought of was to make a lamp with each of the four sides representing one of the four seasons, and to have aspects of the faces linking towards the next.

04.25.23 cw

Mr. Brodie helped me update my Rhino file so that the wood pieces have whole number dimensions. However, I don’t have my wood cut out yet, so I wasn’t able to start cutting out my design.

04.25.23 hw

I finished fixing all of my sketches after a few hours and lots of space bar clicking. I emailed then to Mr. Brodie.

04.21.23 cw

I continued working on fixing my dxf files to the right dimension on Rhino.

04.19.23 cw

I figured out how to fix my dimensions in Rhino through the tools Offset, Extend, and Trim. However, it took me a while to figure out, and it will be a very slow process even though it saved much more time than remaking it in Fusion. I managed to adjust part of a side.

04.18.23 cw

Today in class I started cutting out my dxf files. However, after cutting out one sheet of wood, I only just them realized that I used the wrong dimension for all of my desktop organizer. Instead of .21 inches, I used .16, which was for the cardboard, not the wood. I did set parameters, but with the way that I constructed my design, changing the parameter didn’t work (since I had also forgotten to use the parameter in a few areas and just used the number instead). We decided that we would end up fixing my dimensions in Rhino, which would make it easier than redoing the whole thing in Fusion.

^ the remnants of my failures

04.17.23 cw

I continued to work on finishing making the layout of all my sketches into one Rhino file, even though I ended up taking a 20 minute trip to IT because the computer I had used last time for Rhino had some technical difficulties. However, I managed to finish uploading the rest of my sketches into Rhino, and sent them to Mr. Brodie to cut out.

04.14.23 cw

Since I had already finished 100% of my design and downloaded all my dxf files, I didn’t have any hw. In class today I used one of the school’s computers to upload and compile all my sketches into a single Rhino file.

04.11.23 cw

Today in class I made my 3d printed photo frame, I downloaded and traced an AI-generated picture frame that I generated on Dall-E through the prompt “picture frame with geometrical shapes and small squares”. I also downloaded all 20 of my dxf sketch files.

I also decided to fix up the design of my pattern on the front of the book holder because I wanted it to seem more like a net rather than a bunch of x’s and o’s.

04.11.23 hw

For homework I made my drawer and the book holder portion of my desktop organizer. Although the book holder was originally supposed to be very simple and look just like a rectangular box, I changed it because of Mr. Brodie’s feedback to make it match my curved aesthetic more while also adding on some designs to make it more visually interesting.

04.10.23 cw

Today in class I made the portion of my design that is where the drawer (I will make it later) will be inserted.

04.10.23 hw

I had to de-join all of the pieces that I had previously joined so that I could edit my center vertical piece, in which I had made some slight calculation errors on. Because my horizontal pieces were supposed to be wider in the middle, I forgot to add 2M = 2(0.16) = 0.32 extra inches to my rectangle slits in the centerpiece, meaning my newly crafted horizontal pieces couldn’t fit through. I also lost some progress because Fusion crashed again. After I had fixed my center vertical piece and remade the 2 horizontal pieces (with a lot of ctrl c and ctrl vs), I joined them all together using the joint command, finally finishing the pencil holder portion of my design!

04.05.23 cw

Today we presented our cardboard prototypes. Mr. Brodie suggested that I change up the design for the book/notebook/folder organizer section of my design to make it match the more artistic and complex features of my pencil holders because right now it just appears as a plain square box and looks slightly awkward/bland. So, I’m thinking about using an AI-generator to generate ideas for cool designs I can put on my book organizer section to make its aesthetic match my pencil holder better.

04.05.23 hw

However, because I couldn’t get Mila to take back my cardboard prototype home with her, we figured out a way to still see how it would look as if it was sitting right there on her desk with the power of editing. I took a picture of my cardboard design and edited it onto the space on Mila’s desk where it would theoretically go. I asked Mila to put an 8-inch tall book on her desk where she wanted the organizer to go, and then I sized down and lined up my design with the book so I could get the correct location and dimensions.

I made and reworked the two flat horizontal pieces that go in between each pencil holder section. I accidentally calculated its dimensions wrong the first time, so there was a gaping hole at the back of it, but after I fixed the horizontal design, I realized that my center divider’s dimensions were also wrong because now the horizontals couldn’t fit inside of it (they were too wide).

04.04.23 cw

Today in class I finished making my cardboard prototype. I also worked a bit on my 3d model, including making the sides, the center divider, and the pieces sectioning off the pencil holders.

04.04.23 hw

I worked on making the back wall for the 3d desktop organizer model. It is 8 x 6 inches tall. Now that I have both the front and back parts of the pencil holder completed, I can start to work on the two side pieces, which will be much more complicated.

04.03.23 cw

Today in class I fixed up and re-glued some parts of my pencil holder part of the prototype (so that it was much less lopsided), and then I got to work on the drawer, which is situated right underneath the pencil holder component. Making it was relatively simple because it was just a flat rectangular prism with one side cut out. I used the time I had left to work on my folder holder component by cutting out some of the sides.

04.03.23 hw

After discussing the proto design with Mila, who really liked the design, we agreed that really the only design factor that I could do better on is making the front wall shorter so that it’s easier to see the contents inside of the box. Since I did intentionally make the front wall a bit higher than the others at first because I was afraid that too low of a wall would make the proto design unstable/would make the pencils fall out easily, but after seeing the results with the shorter walls, the length of the wall preventing the pencils from falling out doesn’t really change much. Based on personal preferences, having a shorter wall may even make it easier to grab things and see inside of the organizer (as Mila said). Thus, I will be changing my current design to a front wall shorter by 0.5-1 inches.

04.01.23 cw

Today in class I finished making the hardest portion of my entire cardboard model: the pencil holders. Because they are on three different tiers and needed to be cut separately, I struggled a bit in trying to make them all fit. Luckily, I was able to find a couple of spare pieces I had cut out before that managed to fit fairly nicely within the gaps I needed to fill and walls to stop the pencils from falling out. As you can see in the picture, not all of the vertical pieces I used to support the horizontally tiered cardboard pieces fit perfectly because I couldn’t measure them 100% right, so based on estimates, there may be a few gaps in between. They are more or less completed and supported. I also decided to test the strength of my pieces with actual pencils/pens, and it worked!

04.01.23 hw

I continued to make progress on my 3d model by working on the front piece of the pencil holder. Only when I finished making and extruding the sketch did I realize that, since I needed the side pieces to be fitted into the grooves on the side of the base, I would’ve actually needed to make the front and back pieces 0.16 in shorter on each vertical side. So, I had to remake my front wall so that its grooves actually can align with the base plate.

03.31.23 cw

Today in class I began making my cardboard model. I was able to figure out how to cut straight lines with a box cutter, and I then cut out the pieces for my pencil holder’s base, side pieces, back, and some of the tiered cardboard pieces.

03.31.23 hw

I worked on one of the bases of my design. I decided to begin with the most difficult part of my design: the tiered rows of pencil holders. Currently, this base is 6 inches in width and length, and the back of it will be 8 inches tall. From there on I will have three rows and two columns of small pencil holders that are divided with dividers in between them. In this sketch, I actually made an extra pair of holes than I actually need since the next horizontal divider will be a tier higher. I set the user parameter to 0.16 inches.

03.27.23 cw

Problems: Workspace is often very cluttered with little places to store objects, as a result, common items such as pencils are usually misplaced. TLDR; workspace can be more organized, making an organizer that has a lot of space and practicality is priority (visuals don’t matter as much).

Constraints: Not an abundance of desk space because of the clutter + family pictures

03.27.23 hw

Interviewee: Mila

1. Both – something practical that looks good
2. A sustainable product is always great, if possible, but it doesn’t need to be the #1 priority.
3. Muted colors – something not super flashy but not too minimalistic either. 
4. Rounded shapes
5. A smooth surface, something calming. Not foam, but some plants or wood.
6. Pencils
7. Multiple notebooks, lots of pens, two folders, some pictures of family
8. My visual aesthetic doesn’t affect my ability to do work, but often the space feels very cluttered and like I have too many things with too few places to store them.
9. White, some pink, with off-white walls
10. Motivational quotes – I have a magnet board with them, and pictures of family and friends (picture frames to have that option?)

Elements:

• Muted color scheme
• Round shapes, smooth surface
• Match room color scheme — white and pink
• Include magnet board somewhere on design, as well as picture frames??
• Notebook holder, pencil holder
• Plants and wood

03.24.23 cw

Questions:

1. For what purpose do you want this object? For decoration or for practical uses? Both?
2. Do you have any preferences towards using sustainable products?
3. What is your prefered visual aesthetic? Minimalistic, colorful, vintage, natural, etc? Muted/light/dark color scheme?
4. Is there a kind of shape you find more aesthetically pleasing?
5. What kind of sensual and tactile triggers do you find calming/energizing/pleasing (depending on the mood you want to set on the workplace)? Plants, stones, sand, wood, foam, etc? Rough/smooth surface?
6. What common workplace item do you find yourself constantly misplacing over and over?
7. How many different types of items (writing utensils, paper-based objects, other items) do you have on your desk?
8. In what ways do you feel that you are unorganized? Do you feel that your workplace’s visual aesthetic affects your ability to do work, or do you feel that the speed at which you can access the items makes you more efficient?
9. What is the color of your room + current desk setup?
10. Are there any characters, designs, or words that make you feel more comfortable?

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1. Monday December 5 HW- Upper Arm

Today we began to model our first sketch of the LED lamp – the lower arm. In some places, I resorted to referencing the diagram instead of the video because it was easier to look at while constructing the sketch. We also learned to use components.

2. Monday Dec 5 CW – Upper Arm; Rectangular and circular pattern tool

Today we finished the sketch by using the rectangular and circular pattern tools, and extruded the upper arm.

3. Tuesday Dec 6 HW – Joint command

We used the joint command to duplicate the upper arm + new component for the second upper arm.

4. Tuesday Dec 6 CW, Upper Arm Horizontal

We made a new component for the upper arm’s horizontal piece that connected the two arms.

Friday, Dec 9 CW – Still printing + sanding

I printed out and sanded my upper arm and horizontal using the Rhino program.

Note: I had to reprint mine a few classes later because something had gone wrong while I was putting in my magnets. Luckily, it mostly worked out the second time. I also had to saw off part of my horizontal piece because it came out a few centimeters longer than it was supposed to be , even though it didn’t appear that way on my sketch.

Monday Dec 12 HW – Lower arm and metal discs; reviewed how to use the coincident, construction line, and circular/rectangular pattern tool

Monday Dec 12 CW – Assembling lower arm; learned how to copy pieces and use joint command

We assembled the upper and lower arms by joining them together with our duplicated small metal discs.

Tuesday Dec 13 HW – Lower arm horizontal

Tuesday Dec 13 CW – Base plate

Today I began creating the sketch for my base plate. It ended up taking several tries because Fusion started having tech issues in the middle of it.

Friday Jan 6 HW – Base Verticals

I created the sketch and extruded the base verticals.

Monday Jan 9 CW

In class today, we made a full-scale orthographic model of our phone. it is a bit more difficult than I had anticipated because struggling to find the correct dimensions with a ruler was pretty difficult. I used the circle template to find the diameter of the fillet on the four corners.

Tuesday Jan 10 HW

I began creating the base sketch of my phone.

Tuesday Jan 10 CW

I worked on extruding the body of my phone. I also created sketches for and modeled the charging hole, the camera, the side buttons, and the case. I spent a lot of time re-measuring the dimensions for my phone since I had messed up some or missed some important dimensions.

Friday Jan 13 HW

Since I had already finished modeling my phone to the furthest possible extent last class, I didn’t make any further changes to my phone.

Friday Jan 13 CW

Today I finished filleting the sides of my phone and tried to render the background (but failed).

Tuesday Jan 17 CW

I finished up and rendered my phone’s case + lock screen.

Tuesday Jan 24 HW

I created four sketches for my phone stand. I decided to also draw out each of the individual pieces that would ultimately have to be put together and labelled them as well.

Tuesday Jan 24 CW

Today in class I chose the phone stand sketch I wanted to make and made another larger, more detailed sketch of it with measurements. Then, I began to model the base. Although the pole was originally supposed to be a solid cylinder with a circular foundation, I changed it to rectangular later because I needed to be able to use the two vertical arms for the sides of a hinge.

Friday Jan 27 HW

I continued modeling my pole, which now consists of two arms. It’s pretty similar to the LED lamp’s arms’ design, except I changed up and simplified some parts of it.

Friday Jan 27 CW

I made my hinge and face in class by using the joint-revolute command. The face of my phone stand is connected to the two pieces in between the two outer arms of the pole which can change the angle of the phone stand.

Saturday Jan 28 HW

I finished up assembling my LED lamp design.

Saturday Jan 28 CW

I worked on creating the sketch for phone holder-like circles on the face of my phone stand.

Tuesday Jan 31 HW

I designed the bottom and side holders for the face of my phone stand.

Tuesday Jan 31 CW

In class today, I printed out the lower parts of my LED lamp. However, when I was trying to put the magnets in, I ended up accidentally snapping one of my lower arms in half because the holes were slightly too small to put the magnets in smoothly. I reprinted my lower arms and offset the size of the holes ever so slightly so that I could put the magnets in again.

Friday Feb 3 HW

For homework, I made the horizontal piece between my two arms.

Friday Feb 3 CW

I glued on my metal discs on my lower arm.

Friday Feb 10 CW

I glued together my lower arms and horizontal.

Monday feb 13 HW

I began the sketch for the base of my pencil box. However, Fusion crashed on me and it didn’t save, so this is the last screenshot I had of it.

Monday Feb 13 CW

I tried to print my base plate and verticals today, but with the time I had spent getting a new piece of wood + waiting for others to finish, it was way too late before I found out that my base plate sketch was flawed. However, I figured out why (I had combined it wrong) and fixed my sketch for next class.

Tuesday Feb 14 CW

Today in class I worked on 3d printing and gluing together my base verticals and base plate using wooden blocks.

Friday Feb 17 HW

I continued working on my pencil holder sketches and fixed the base sketch I had from the last time.

Friday Feb 17 CW

Today in class I worked on piecing together my upper and lower arms and the base using metal screws. I also taped in the led light.

Monday Feb 20 CW

Today I began trying to melt together my wires. However, I didn’t finish as it was harder than expected to find which wires were supposed to go together.

Tuesday Feb 21 HW

I finished making all of my pencil holder sketches

Tuesday Feb 21 CW

I continued soldering together my wires today. I didn’t have another picture of this so I’ll just put the same picture as last time (it basically looked the same with the heat tubes on anyways).

Wed Feb 22 Hw

I tried piece together all the pieces of my pencil holder, but something clearly was wrong when almost all of the pieces didn’t join together the right way. So I had to go all the way and remake a bunch of sketches. Thankfully, I was able to troubleshoot most of it.

Web Feb 22 CW

I finished making my LED lamp today! I glued together the base pieces and tested turning it on with the switch. Thank god it worked. I also started working on fixing the rest of my sketches. In the end, I remade some so they were able to fit together.

Friday Feb 24 HW

I worked on designing my own custom pencil box. I decided to go with a dumpster theme (because why not?). The design is fairly simple: I took a lot of inspo from the traditional pencil box we did, then I added some gimmicks onto it, like a slanted roof with a hinge that can turn up and down.

Friday 24 CW

I continued designing my custom box. Unfortunately, it seems the hinge design wouldn’t work because the slanted roof made it too difficult. SO, I decided to change it so that it could just be lifted up instead with a small handle on top.

Saturday 25

I came into GCAD on Saturday to work on printing and assembling my pencil box. Thankfully the whole laser cutting process and assembling process was fairly simple. I would say that the hardest part of all of this was actually getting into GCAD.

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