With this project in easel I was mainly inspired by creating shapes that would be akin to cities in their most geometrical form and curve like hills. When I was working on this in Easel I ran through a number of add-ons and testing which could give me a base to create this image overall….
Assignment 5 – Max Kawula
The process behind mine was unnecessarily convoluted, but did open the way for more types of work. I started by creating a mesh in blender. I focused mostly on vertical features since this would be a CNC. I did try to keep the thickness of the material in mind to make sure the bevels would…
Assignment 4 – Max Kawula
For my stacked slices project, I continued with the same head model I used for the flat fold. I was interested in seeing more of the organic features I sculpted and I thought the two would look interesting side-by-side. Assembling the head was actually pretty quick. Since I had three dowel rods shooting through the…
Jake Studdard Final Project (post needs to be updated)
For my final project I wanted to make a dice box to roll and hold my dice for D&D. The idea was to 3D model a map to be CNC milled into wood and made into the lid for the box. I also 3D modeled several major locations of the map to be 3D printed…
Jake Studdard Kerf Project
For my project working with a laser cut kerf pattern I attempted to make a tube shaped container for holding dice used in Dungeons and Dragons. I wanted to create several flat peices that could be joined together and assembled into the tube container by using a kerf pattern I designed based on the different…
Jake Studdard Laser Engraved Images
Halloween was approaching when we were learning about how to turn a digital image into something laser engraved, so for my project I chose two particularly spooky images. The final result engraved on MDF came out with good detail but a little light and hard to read from a distance.
Assignment 4: Raster Image
First off, I hate how this one looks, on both materials. The image I chose is a microscopic close up of some cells. I thought I had enough contrast in my bitmap, but I guess not. It was very difficult to choose an image I could see looking interesting. This one seemed to have the…
Assignment 3: Stacked Slices
For this assignment I chose to make a seated figure without a torso where the upper half of the body would be held up by the arms resting on the knees. I decided to make the slices diagonal to the ground which started at the top of her head. Shane already printed my piece before…
Assignment 2: Flat-Fold
For my flat-fold assignment I found a 3D scan of a crab. For very large files like the crab, I found it helpful to bring the object into Meshmixer first and reduce the vertices by a lot. Usually even around ~80% less kept most of the details. Otherwise Slicer would just freeze or crash on…
Assignment 1: Interior Anatomy 3D Print
For my 3D print, I found a house I split into two halves and the inside reveals a little alien fetus. When trying to come up with an idea, I thought of the different ways I could show the inside of an object while keeping it printable and readable as the interior of the object….