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Assignment 8: Laser-Cut Paper Vessel

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 Hannah Mhairi     I have some upcoming markets and I make a lot of jewelry and small things like marbles and ornaments. I wanted to make a small box that would be a little bit more exciting than regular box, and more on brand with me. I quickly came up with the idea for a coffin shaped boxed, I got to work right away as I didn't feel as though I needed to sketch it.  Here is the basic idea in  Rhino. I had some issues with automatically unrollsrf command not unrolling the surfaces how I wanted it to so I had to do it similar to how you stated you did it; explode, rotate2d, join, unrollsrf. This screenshot below is from when I, for the life of me, could not figure out why command make2d was not getting rid of isocurves. I discovered it was making a new model out of my view that did actually get rid of the isocurves. I ended up using polylines to make my own triangular shaped tabs, other than at the very bottom where I used polygon<3>. One thing I ran into,...

Assignment 7: The Coat Hook: Production

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 Hannah Mhairi      While I wanted to go with a bit of a more complex design, like the plate and cutlery, I felt as though this would be a more sturdy design. I think it's quite boring aesthetically but I think it would work quite effectively. It meets the 100x100x100mm requirements, as well as I do believe it would hang nicely on two screws. It will need support I believe to print the balled hooks, but I think the support would be minimal. Not quite sure.