brief.

• experiment with different 2d and 3d design tools
• explore parametric design workflows

a bit of context + plan for the week.

I come into the week having prior experience with various CAD and draeing programs. My go to programs are Fusion 360 for 3d work and Adobe illustrator for 2D work. I feel they suit the type of work I do and I've grown quite comfortable with them.

I wanted to challenge my self to use blender and inkscape this week but unfortunatly ran out of time. I hope to revisit both blender and inkscape later throughout the FabAcademy. Specifically i like that both softwares are free and yould be great to teach the community here in our lab. Additioanly im excited to experiment with blender for organic modeling as well as geometry nodes.

helpful hints and resources.

weekly terminology:

parametric modeling: text
surface modeling: text
rastor: text
vector: text
solid modeling: text

resources to get started:

Parametric Modeling in Fusion 360.

pepper's gohst enclosure

Dodecohedron light controller

embedded hardware would change the brightness, color, or position, of light as you moved/ tumbled the object

2d design in Adobe illustrator

I used adobe illusrtator to design a laser cutting test/template. The template will be matricx of circles to compare the relationship between speed and power on the laser.

The epilog uses color to seperate our objects, in short we can assign differnt speeds/power setting to each individual color. I spererated each row into its own layer so i could send each row to the printer. This is done by hiding the layers i didn't want to run

conclusion

Fusin 360 can do parametric solid modeling and organic surface modeling really well. Fortunatly we get a free edu subscription being part of ASU. I think its an extremly versatile all around CAD package. I would say its positioned perfcet for Industrial design applications. Great for things that have to be created irl and good for creating projects with assemblies and multiple components. Can bridge the gap between sculptural projects and engineering related products.

• I wish there was a better way to export 2d faces in fusion as vectors
• still need to dive deeper into inkscape
• still need to explore blender and geometry nodes!

files

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