2. DIGITAL BODIES¶

RESEARCH AND INSPIRATION¶

I have gotten into making 3d scans of things with my phone, and so this week was the perfect opportunity to turn one of them into a physical object.

while looking through all my scans, i realized that it would be cool to have a bust of my head that i could store my hat on, as well as turn into the head of a mannequin

TOOLS¶

Rhino
Slicer for Fusion360
Cardboard

PROCESS AND WORKFLOW¶

Most of the work for this assignment is handled by slicer for fusion360, a plug in for fusion360 that can turn most 3D files into a sliced model that can be tweaked and assembled in various ways.

I ended up using the stacked variation to create my bust as it gave the most detail and also had the fewest amount of errors to fix

SLICER¶

Here are my slicer settings for the size and type of slice that i did

RHINO¶

Once you have exported your boards into Rhino you must code it so that it knows how to handle the files.

One problem i ran into, was that i didnt define the file as 2D when i imported it so when i went to laser cut it was taking forever because it was treating each line as a 3D shape.