Intermediate Rapid Prototyping Schedule
Fall 2021, Section A2
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Date Lecture Office Hours Project/Assignment Hand-in
Week 1 Mon 10/18 Course overview and intro to mechanisms.
Scissors script.
Install SolidWorks on your laptop or try out Virtual Andrew.
Laser cutter:
(A) Laser cutter policies.
(B) Laser cutter safety module.
(C) Cody Soska trains you on the laser cutter: watch both parts 1 and 2.
Sign up for fire extinguisher training if you need it.
Wed 10/20 Gears and linkages.
Gears and LittleMan Automaton script
LittleManParts.zip
- Watch this Mechanism video
- Assignment 1: Mechanism
Fri 10/22 Lee 11:45-12:45
Week 2 Mon 10/25 Simulation.
Parts file: Levers.zip
Video: Computational design of mechanical characters.
Anushka 6:00-7:00
Wed 10/27 Articulated motion.
Resources: Compound.zip, Articulation.zip
Assignment 2: Automaton Mechanism due
Fri 10/29 Lee 11:45 - 12:45
Week 3 Mon 11/1 Intermittent motion and complex linkages.
Parts files: DrivingShaft.SLDPRT and DrivenShaft.SLDPRT.
Videos: Automata videos
Mechanism files for motion study. Cozmo's lift.
Anushka 6:00 - 7:00
Wed 11/3 Surfaces in SolidWorks.
Image files: frontview_deoroller.jpg, sideview_deoroller.jpg
Fri 11/5 Lee 11:45 - 12:45 Automaton due
Week 4 Mon 11/8 Procedurally-generated objects. Intro to Grasshopper. Anushka 6:00-7:00
Wed 11/10 Grasshopper part 2: Grasshopper and Rhino.
Fri 11/12 Lee 11:45 - 12:45
Week 5 Mon 11/15 Grashopper part 3: lists and trees.
Optional video: Grasshopper Trees lecture by Nick Senske
Anushka 6:00 - 7:00 Read this data tree tutorial.
Assignment 3: Parametric Surface
Wed 11/17 Weaverbird and Coccoon
Files: StanfordBunny.stl, airplane.stl
Demo: rabbit mesh sculpture.
Fri 11/19 Lee 11:45 0 12:45
Week 6 Mon 11/22 Kangaroo 2 Physics
File: kanga-pipe.3dm and instructions for making it.
Daniela 11:15-12:15 Final projects Parametric surface due
Wed 11/24 Thanksgiving break. No class.
Week 7 Mon 11/29 Final project proposals.
More Kangaroo 2.
File: organic-pipes.3dm
Wed 12/1 Advanced Grasshopper topics
Books: Khabazi: Generative Algorithms books and porous shell files
Fri 12/3 Lee 11:45 - 12:45
Week 8 Mon 12/6 No more classes. Work on final projects. Anushka 6:00-7:00
Wed 12/8 No more classes. Work on final projects.
Fri 12/10 Lee 11:45 - 12:45
Week 9 Mon 12/13 No more classes. Work on final projects. Final project due.
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