oh how the technology–and therefore the expectations have changed. I like to show my students my 2nd year project work - all hand drawn, scanned, spray mounted to foam core boards, and hand colored…vs what they do now with just SU+Lumion/V-Ray/Enscape/Twinmotion/Unreal. No contest!
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hahaha, quite recently I was looking for some paper and I found my raisins (paper format, 50 x 65cm) from first year, all pencil drawn.
I was the last year to do that, next year they allowed CAD drawings from the get go, and within 2 years no student was drawing by hand, pencil or ink. I did a year in pencil, then a semester with ink (well two, because I failed that one).
I also had to do a project that included a park, ended up making a 1/200 A2 watercolour plan…
I don’t regret not working as an architect, the actual job is too different from the way I studied. But at times, I miss these things.
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I miss the hands on media, the smell of a fresh roll of trace when you take it out of that crinkly plastic wrap, the way an ink wash could immediately change your whole perception of a drawing.
I really like having a key combination for ‘undo’ though….!
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A lot nicer than the temple assignment I gave to my students, but that was for a single 2 hour class or so. I also taught them hand drafting on other weeks so they got a taste of both worlds. The thing kids were most excited to use was the electric eraser. True, it was helpful in hand drafting, but I agree, an Undo command is way better.
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well, took me about 4 month, but I did a following piece to the orange gradient one.
this time, on a solid mdf backing, no frame.
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Very cool but making my eyes spin around. 
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what do you do when you’re satisfied wit ha design and you want to take one with you across the country ?
make it smaller off course.
the trapezes on the sides are 15mm wide (bottom), 8mm on the top, and 9mm high. basically a nail. my ring finger’s nail.
it’s 30x30 cm yet the same width (in term of hexagons) as the previous orange one.
(for the americans out there, the 1€ coin is about 0,9153543307" in diameter. or 59/64". or 0,00045 football field)
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After the previous one, I made a slightly bigger version, it’s not square anymore, it’s about an A3 (40x30cm, so… 16"x12")
and from there, I thought what if I did that, but on a bigger scale, like I did with the red/green panel ?
a 50 x 65cm (20" x 24") panel covered with the 1€ coin-sized ones.
well it’s a WIP, it’ll contain three times more volumes than the previous one, so I’ll show you in 45-50 hours from now.
but here is a funny bit, Earlier today I had an architect file open, with all kind of stuff properly named in the outliner, groups, components, all great.
then there is the outliner for the WIP.
roughly 450
<A> and a handful of groups.
the lesson here is to trust the process, if it works, and it gives you the result you’re expecting (and SU doesn’t crash), it’s a valid option.
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This is good - it’ll take way fewer if you need to cover an entire football field. ;^)!
This one is just for pleasure.
The best part of cutting stuff is peeling it off.
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How are you cutting all that? By hand with and X-Acto or something?
A plotter, in this case a cameo silhouette 4
I did my share of xacto cutting in architecture school, got enough tendinitis / finger pain. And the machine does in 15 min what I would do in an hour or more.
I’ll cut prototypes by hand, it’s faster to print on a4 and quickly test a volume with tape than set up the machine.
This video is from a 3h cut I did today, a total of 12 pages (10x12" or 25x30cm), 450 big parts and about 1200 small ones
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So, just like Endless and Cotty, today is about upcycling something in real life using sketchup.
until now, doing my geometry pieces, I used to pile all the paper shapes to be folded and glued.
At some point I managed to drop one of the platters, and right now it’s getting quite hot so I’m running a fan most of the day, and fan + little pieces of paper = stupid idea.
The other day I found this wooden game box. it’s almost empty, game pieces lost in time.
20 minutes of sketchup later…
now it took an hour of delicate cutting, slotting, re-cutting a bit because I can’t measure right, and tadaam.
technically I needed 26 spaces, but the bottom right ones don’t take a lot of space, they can share.
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What happened to the horse?
it’s still there, I like the design on the top cover.
if you turn the box over, on the bottom, you’ll find a chessboard too 
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I think those boxes used to be made in a country behind the Iron Curtain, don’t remember if they were from the GDR or Soviet Estonia.
I don’t know where they’re from, but clearly the one I found lost most of its content. it even had dividers originally
I might have a tip for 2 more (empty) for 10€ nearby, stuff like that is quite handy
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Spent a couple hours yesterday waiting for a tow truck on the way home from a training session.
naturally I didn’t get a book, 4G was bad, but I had the 50 exercices’s images on my laptop.
finished and rearranged everything today.
it’s nice, little puzzle / exercices, like stretching your SU muscles.
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My favourite cookie is probably the Jaffa Cake. or Pim’s as we call them in france. they have a harder shell.
anyway, this morning, remote class, my 2 trainees are modelling a house from a dwg, and they’re doing quite well, making me useless.
so I did that.
- it allowed me to quickly show trimble connect visualizer.
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I envy your beautiful, regular set of teeth… 
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