This week I was practicing with CAT programs. First I tried Onshape. Since is the very first time that I use such a kind of programs I decided to follow a free introductory course to CAA offered by Onshape. There they were explaining basic concepts and I did a test on 3D thinking. Since my final project is to make a book-object inspired from an actual book called “Two harts” (Chupa ladxidua) I decided to start playing with the form of a hart in the programs I was exploring. I am planning to include inside this hart a device contained the Zapotec indigenous stories from the original book and its translation into Spanish. I am expecting that a child and its parents can have an effective communication mediated with this device and in this way also revitalize the Zapotec language. Therefore, I am planning to make a device composed of two harts (chupa ladxidua); one for the child and other for the parent. In order to make my first practice with CAD I decided to explore the online program Thinkercad which is very friendly and easy to manipulate for first user. With this program I was able to choose a very basic form of a heart from Thinkercad´s repository and then to manipulated the size and make extrusion. Then I looked for other figures made it by users and I down load a more realistic hart from a Thinkercad user´s repository. I was also to manipulate this figure by playing with colors. Then I downloaded the two figures in the format .OBJ and open them in Rhino were I was able to make my first render.
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