Rendering

Review tools

Make 2d

New Tools

Rebuild/control points

offset surface

Rendering (Rhino Render)

Materials

lights

Printing (saving as PDF)

Dimensions

flow along surface

drape

layout file

For the midterm:
you should have a minimum of six sheets. You should have three layout drawings and three renders. These files should be printed on 8.5 x 11 high quality paper. You may have to find a place on campus to print at a higher quality. You may want to use photoshop, to help montage or edit your renders prior to printing. Before the midterm review email (or dropbox) me your Rhino file and your original photograph. 

CASE by CASE (three week project)

Assignment brief:      

As humans we naturally put things in to categories, compartmentalize our surroundings and even organize objects within objects.  A container is usually defined as an object that can be used to hold or transport something. Design and fabricate a wearable container. Choose an object that, in your opinion needs a case/container. Use Rhino, laser cutting or 3D printing to create a housing/external case that changes the original objects meaning.     

Learning outcomes:           

Students will use Rhino to model and render a wearable that contains an object. Students will 

have better understanding of measuring and modeling by accurately duplicating a real-world object.

Skills list:                                                      

Advanced Rhino modeling techniques and 3D printing

Concept:                                

Learn how to accurately model an object and create a holder or case for that object.

Research:                                

Do your research.  Find packaging.  Look at suitcases/pelican cases.  Look at blister packs. How much volume 

of material is needed? Look at high-end liquor packaging.  What happens when the contents are consumed?

Questions:

How would you define a container?

Does making a container for an object make it precious?

How can a container be more than a container?  

What would dictate the outside shape of a container?

What are you containing?

What percentage of an object needs to be covered in order to define something as “contained”?

When a container acts as a protective covering why aren’t objects designed to require a container?

Does your object have to come out? OR is it a break glass in case of an emergency type of object.