Group: Erina Filipovska and LuzMichelle Lavayen
Assignment: Digital Fabrication, Laser cutting
For this assignment we created a bench based on designing a waffle structure and getting into the process of fabricate our model with a laser cutter machine. The bench is actually a part of group a furniture, in order to do that we had some restrictions, the size should not exceed of the given bounding box (500 x 500 x 350 mm) and we should keep the 2 outer sides in that way all the benches could be put it together. We design a bench that could be comfortable, like a resting sofa.
The first step was to design the bench in rhino. We selected the existing geometry surface and Contour in order to get the final 2 contour lines, then we Loft the 2 polylines and rebuild the surface with 20 control points we got a closed surface and were able to turn the control points on. We modify the surface till we like the design and the proportions of the bench. Offset surface, and made another surface inside the first one to get the thickness of the ribs. Using the command Contour we made contours along the x axis and y axis with these polylines we got the ribs for the bench. We made the intersections with pipes and subtract them and got all the ribs with the connections.
The second step was to print the file with all the pieces of the bench. We used for material 2 sheets of plywood of 3mm thick with dimensions of 2.50 x 1.22 m. And then printed on the laser cutter machine
The third step is the assembling part. First we start with the vertical pieces and intersected with the horizontal in the top and the horizontal in the bottom and in the end the 2 outer vertical pieces.
