petebooth[iaac]

Georgia and I have completed the fabrication and construction of our first digital tools and fabrication assignment, we call it ‘the tube’ (pretty unoriginal we know). We worked collaboratively on the design and fabrication of the object, passing many rhino files between us.

There was a bit of a problem with the rhino model though, it wouldn’t cut the intersection tubes away from the component planes. At 2am we rebuilt the rhino model, it still didn’t work. We ended up doing it the long way, creating lines through intersection and manually joining all the lines. Time consuming but the end result was very satisfying.

We had a minor technical hitch in the laser cutting as well, autocad didn’t like the text format that rhino exported. The machine cut the first sheet, but left off the text. Luckily I realized before we removed any of the pieces [see approx 1:45 into the attached movie]. We were able to convert the text in autocad and re-cut only the text. It all would have been bad if we had realized any later though.

The final product, complete with pretty lighting.

Click the image above to download the PDF of the manual.
Click HERE to download the DWG laser cut file.

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