Tapirot's Process Blog

The fan is finished! Rendering takes forever and my render looks awful, I'm not sure what happened there. In the process of modelling the wires, I accidentally detached one of them so the fan doesn't work anymore and when I try to reassemble it, I couldn't so R.I.P fan. exploded version 1 exploded version 2 assembled version 1  assembled version 2 assembled version 3 assembled version 4 This project really made me think on how and where I should start. Lots of brain storming on how to create a specific thing from simple shapes.

So there is a quicker way of making screws. I deleted the old ones and made new ones. Check out the differences: left - new version; right- old version left - new version; right - old version After re-making the screws, I started making the fan cover. At first, I thought it would be easy because it looks like it's just a bunch of pipes, circles and lofts but man, was I wrong. This is what I have for now. What I'm trying to finish for this blog. My next problem

I dismantled my fan today after arriving home from Thanksgiving dinner. There were not a lot of parts as I thought there would be. Since I don't want to lose the tiny parts, I decided to measure them first. Here is the best sketch I've ever done for this class: Another reason why I chose to model the screws first is because I remember from last year, there were Youtube tutorials about modelling screws in Rhino. They used older versions of the software but I know it still works. There's probably a faster way to do it especially with Rhino 6 but I'll just follow what the channel's doing. Modeling Screw Threads (part 1) Modeling Screw Threads (part 2) With these tutorials I was able to make SCREW C and SCREW A. I did the screw threads first because it was harder than making the top. Then I used "Sphere" and "Split" it in half for the top part. After making the screws, I did the nuts. It was pretty easy but there was a challenge, p...

I don't really own a lot of things that are dissectible and interesting so I chose objects that I can disassemble for the second project of this class. For this project, I have to use Rhino to "reverse engineer" an item that I (well maybe not just me, Bryan's also going to choose) selected.  Among the three items, I choose the box cutter knife mainly because it's the flattest item in the selection and as a person who is afraid of challenges and not being able to get a great mark, I think I can model it on Rhino in, or hopefully before, due time. But it's the lamest among the three, to be honest. The mini desk fan would probably be a pain but humans should always face their fears and challenge themselves in order to improve. So I guess my final item would be the desk fan. All I need now is to find a screwdriver so I can actually disassemble the fan. The nail cutter is just there because it's mechanical and I can't find anything else. ...