OBDF 210

Project 1 - Found Patterns I found the following patterns in my house, two from furniture, one from flooring and two from a piece of clothing. I was a little surprised to find so many patterns in my own little space, having not paid much attention to that before. I think the following patterns show a lot of warmth and comfort (although maybe that's a biased opinion since they belong in my home). One interesting thing to note is that they all are from second hand objects or objects that are "used" (such as the floor). This appeals to me too, because I feel like secondhand items always come with more character and history than new objects.  Chair seat Flooring Couch cushion Shirt pattern Dress pattern      

  Drawing in 2D     Problem Areas: Trimming        I struggled with trimming on both of the above examples. For the first example, I couldn't get the inside lines to trim away without losing the entire outline of the square.      The second example is one I eventually came back to and solved, but at first I couldn't round out the arcs. Eventually when I returned to this problem I just trimmed the pointed ends off :) Offset     This example stumped me completely, I didn't know how to use the offset function at all. To work around it I copied and pasted the original shape and then scaled it smaller.    Fillet     I had an issue with filleting the star shape, I found the fillet tool and was able to use it, but I kept getting an error message.  Above is the completed list of examples. I was comfortable with most, but the offset commands, split command, and the last four curve examples I will need more assistance on. I quite liked this exercise however, it was useful to practice

  Modelling Architecture in Rhino For our week one assignment I chose to model the entrance to my apartment building. It consists mostly of cubic shapes, with rounded ornamental windows cut out. I thought it was a good, straightforward choice to practice some of the skills we learned last week.  I built the entrance using various sized rectangular extrusions, and copying extrusions so that sizes were uniform. As I built it, I realized I should've used the mirror tool, since some of the extrusions weren't lining up correctly. I found that my knowledge of Rhino so far isn't as technical as other modelling software I've used, and I'd like to know how to use construction lines in Rhino.  I was stumped when it came to cut out the front archway; I created an extrusion with fillets to get the rounded corners, but the boolean cut-away wouldn't work because the fillets didn't seem to apply to the front and back face of the extrusion.  In summary, this was easier than