Assignment 04 (FALL 2013)

Description

Fabricate your Assignment 3 Revolved Surface. Your surface should fit in a 12″ x 12″ x 12″ volume. Refer to the videos below to create panelize your surfaces.

Requirements

You will be fabricating you surface using bristol board paper. Please save your grasshopper (.gh) files to your dropbox folder. Refer to the syllabus for the file naming conventions for dropbox submissions.  These are due before the next class on Friday 10/04/13.  Late assignments will receive a grade penalty. Please bring your completed surfaces with you to class on Friday. We will be pinning them up and having a discussion.

Scoring

• Design : 15%
• Fits within the bounds of the volume (12″x 12″x 2″): 10%
• Demonstrates Proficiency with Tool and fabrication processes (laser cutting, tabbing, labeling, nesting): 65%
• Labeling /Organization of Dropbox / Correct File Naming: 10%

Resources

Fall 2013: Week 5 Panelization Part 1

Fall 2013: Week 5 Panelization Part 2

You can view last year’s panelization class, as well. You can find the videos here:

http://designalyze.com/fab-for-laser-part1

http://designalyze.com/fab-for-laser-part2

Assignment 03 (FALL 2013)

Description

Define a Revolved Surface in a 12″ x 12″ x 12″ volume. Refer to the video below to create your surface. Use the Panel component to describe and comment/label your definition.

Requirements

Create a parametrically controllable revolved surface . Please save your grasshopper (.gh) files to your dropbox folder. Refer to the syllabus for the file naming conventions for dropbox submissions.  These are due before the next class on Tuesday 09/24/13.  Late assignments will receive a grade penalty. Please have your surface ready to and with you in class on Tuesday. We will be using these for the panelization lecture.

Scoring

• Revolve Surface is parametrically controllable : 25%
• Fits within the bounds of the volume (12″x 12″x 2″): 20%
• Demonstrates Proficiency with Tool : 45%
• Labeling /Organization of Dropbox / Correct File Naming: 10%

Resources

If you want to see what we will be doing with these surfaces you can view last year’s panelization class, you can find the video here:

http://designalyze.com/fab-for-laser-part1

http://designalyze.com/fab-for-laser-part2

Assignment 02 (FALL 2013)

Description

Define a pattern in a 12″ x 12″ x 2″ volume. You may use attractor geometry or combinations of geometric transformations. Use the Panel component to describe and comment/label your definition.

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Assignment 01 (FALL 2013)

Description

Using the example files create the number patterns in Grasshopper.  Using the refer to the class video below for a review of the Math components in Grasshopper.

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Assignment 06

Description

Fabricate your responsive component.  You should now have a responsive component in Grasshopper that responds to an input parameter control with a range of 0.0 to 1.0.  Using the laser cutter as your fabrication technique create 3 versions of your component that represent 3 unique states of your component.  You can choose any 3 values from 0.0 to 1.0 or you could use the end and middle conditions, for example 0.0, 0.5, 1.0.

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Assignment 03

Description

Prepare your surface for fabrication.  We will be creating cut files for the laser cutter in this assignment.  You may use the surface you created in the last assignment or create a new one.  Please see the requirements for details steps.

Requirements

This assignment requires a couple of steps to complete.  Scale is a big part of this project because our files have to be prepared for cutting.

1. You will need to create or modify your surface to fit within a 12″ x 12″ x 12″ volume.
2. You must panelize your surface and have a minimum of 50 quad panels.
3. You may use either method for panelizing and laying out your files for cutting.  The two methods are the triangle method and or the quad method.  Either is acceptable.
4. The panels must be nested on a sheet to fit the laser cutter boundaries.
5. You must provide your grasshopper definition, a rhino file of your project, and a rhino .3dm file of your pieces for laser cutting.
6.   The file for laser cutting must have only two layers in it.  One named Cut and another named Score.  You must put your cut and score linework on the appropriate layers.  NOTE: the only objects in this file are to be the lines/polylines for cutting and scoring.  There should be no additional geometry.

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Assignment 02

Description

Panelize and control geometry with an attractor.  Using the second class tutorials as a starting point, create two surfaces to panelize.  At least one surface must be created in Grasshopper (not just referenced from Rhino).  You may create some geometry in rhino, but the surface needs to be created in Grasshopper.  For example you could draw curves in Rhino then use loft or revolve or other surface creation tools.  Your surface needs to be panelized into flat/triangulated sub-panels.  At least one of these surfaces must use some attractor geometry to affect some change/variation across the surface.

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Assignment 01

Description

Create your own box morphed object in Rhino/Grasshopper.  Using the first class tutorials as a starting point, create you own objects in rhino and morph them to a a surface.  The surface can either be created in rhino “manually” or by creating a parametric surface in grasshopper (as demonstrated in the revolve tutorial during class).  Please don’t just use simple shapes e.g. cones, pyramids, spheres, and boxes, but really try and design an object in rhino that would give you a great object when populated on your surface.

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