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!
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.
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….!
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.
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.
Very cool but making my eyes spin around.
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)
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
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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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
I envy your beautiful, regular set of teeth…