MAT 238_COMPFAB_Week2

Weekly Assignment: Create a set of small stacking or nesting objects functional or otherwise

3D Printing: Ender 3 Pro, Standard White PLA

Design: Rhino, Grasshopper

I originally wanted to create a stack of bowls. At first, I started some research around some ceramic designs from different cultures and materials for inspiration. My main inspiration originated from this object: Nephrite Bowls - Helmut Wolf, George Ashley, Unknown — Google Arts & Culture. I designed simple open curve and I used the "RevSurf" block in Grasshopper to revolve around the z-axis.

I used the python script and tutorial of stacking that was provided for this assignment. At first, I had some errors with the code regarding the initial points and the axis of the stacking. The error in the script was because it was trying to read a list of points and not a single point as a starting point and the wrong axis was because of the position of my initial curve (it was away from 0,0,0 coordinated and slightly rotated).

After checking if the bowls were stacking properly, I extruded the surfaces along the Z axis in order to be as separated objects in order to export as an .stl file. I decided to print all three bowls together, but i reduced the size of all the bowls in order to get printed faster. Also, the curve was in the right angle in order not to have any support while 3D printing.

It took 2 hours to print all of three bowls in 50% of their original size. They are small but I thought of this print of just a demo one. I would like to wrap around the surface of the bowl the pattern I had for Week1_Assignment and print them in the actual scale. So far, I tried combining both python scripts, but my skills are not in this level yet. I will update as soon as I have the final result.