🎹 Rhino for planting plants

Thank you Marcela for the genius advice that we should put the 3D-printed plate underneath the plants! The roots do take shape in this way!!

Plate made with …

Array

I experimented with array in late March. Because I was traveling, my partner Korrina helped me with the printing.

Process

• hexagon - linear array - copy & paste for several times ➾
• square - trim - planar curve - extrude surface - union

Potential problems

• the gap between each two lines are not the same
• it takes a lot of manual work

Techniques learned

• how to use the array function

Paneling Tools

This is a part of the assignment for week 10, we learned/ reviewed the paneling tools together

I mainly used ptPanelGridCustomVariable, and select the hexagon I created as the variable

• ptGridSurfaceDomainNumber

  • create the paneling points

• ptPanelGridCustomVariable

• ptPanelGridCustom

• the one i used to make the plate

🧣 Print on Fabrics

I struggled A WHOLE SUNDAY to figure out how to print on the fabric ; ; The top one encountered a huge error because the filament wasn’t of high quality. But they look cute. They look like pic frames (trying my best to stay positive) It was actually better to put a bit glue on the printing plate (I promise I cleaned afterwards!!

The bottom ones, I used ultimaker to print. It took SO long. In the printing process, I realized that double sided type could affect the printing quality.

(by the way, thank you Korrina for making the model!!)

🧵 Rhino for Bobbins (on the motor)

Yes I used grasshopper this time because I was very unsure about the sizings. Using grasshopper makes it easier to change the parameters.

I do have to break them into separate pieces to print because it would require a lot of support to print the bobbin as a whole.

• And taking experience from the past, I think it’s better to make holes after printing it out. I used a leather punch. 🥊
• When Korrina and I tried the motor, the bobbin and the strings, they didn’t really work ;’) So I redesigned the bobbin. This time, I put the channel for the strings somewhere in the middle of the cylinder, and connected one cap & the cylinder together. I’m glad that I used grasshopper to make the bobbin in the first place because it makes everything much easier to change.