Week 1, August 20: Foundations | ||
| Tuesday | Course Introduction slides |
Order your 3D printer and 1 roll of PLA filament in the color of your choice. |
| Thursday | Modeling in Rhino: Curves Guest professor: Camila Friedman-Gerlicz slides |
Register for the class website Install Rhino 8, use the link you received via email |
Week 2, August 27: 3D Modeling | ||
| Tuesday | Modeling in Rhino: Surfaces and Solids Guest professor: Camila Friedman-Gerlicz video |
Small Assignment: Introduce Yourself |
| Thursday | Introduction to Computational Design with Grasshopper Introduction to Cura slides |
Download and Install Cura, the slicing software we will use in this class |
Week 3, September 3: 3D Printing | ||
| Tuesday |
Weekly researcher: Emily Whiting 3D Printing Technologies |
Assemble your 3D printer. Follow this video carefully. Level your print bed. Follow this video carefully. Download the necessary files here. |
| Thursday | 3D Printer Setup Guest professors: Erin McClure and Lasair Servilla (Graduate students in the Hand and Machine lab) Class will be held in the CS Innovation Space in the Farris Engineering Center basement, across the hall from the Hand and Machine lab. If you want help with bed leveling or printer set up, bring your printer to class. |
Small Assignment: First 3D Print Note: DROP DEADLINE IS SEPTEMBER 6 |
Week 4, September 10: 3D Printing cont. | ||
| Tuesday | Guest lecture, Jaime Gould | |
| Thursday | Bring your projects to class | Large Assignment 1: 3D Modeling and 3D Printing |
Week 5, September 17: Parametric Design | ||
| Tuesday | Introduction to parametric design Coordinate systems: cartesian, cylindrical, spherical |
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| Thursday | Parametric design cont. Loft, Offset Curve |
Small Assignment: Rhinoscript |
Week 6, September 24: Data-Driven Design | ||
| Tuesday | Finding data Cleaning data Working with data in Python and Grasshopper |
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| Thursday | Bring your projects to class | Large Assignment 2: Parametric Vessels |