Assignment: Model (draw, render, animate, simulate, ...) a possible final project, and post it on your class page with original 2D and 3D files.
For this assignment I chose to redesign an old project I made 4 years ago. The project was about designing a chair made of plywood slices, with no glued or screwed joints. The original idea considered to design a chair out of a sphere by volume substraction turning the chair into a 360 rotation rocking chair. The first model was design with Creo Parametric software and rendered with Keyshot. Here there are a couple of renders of the original idea:
After designing the CAD model, I built the rocking chair in 5mm Plywood boards by cutting the pieces with a CNC machine. These are some pictures of the original mockup:
For the redesign of the model I used Autodesk Fusion 360 software. First you can see a side section sketch with the dimensions of the chair considering first its ergonomy.
3D model turned into Slicer plugin for Fusion 360. This way the model can be transformed into a sliced structure. The properties of the slices as well as its distribution along the cutting panels are calculated by the plugin software.
Its spherical base will demand a center mass calculation to guarantee its stability. Center of mass point and middle-section of the model are shown in the following picture:
This layout shows the distribution of all the pieces in 3 plywood panels (244x122cm). The distribution of the pieces was readapted in Adobe Illustrator to condense and reduce as much as possible the space between pieces.
