Zeran Digital Making Blogs

Assignment 3 Reflection  BEIL 0014 Digital  Making It's very important to master the skill of Model making, especially  Industrial  Design students. Model can present your concepts and ideas from imagination to reality, and it will be easier to make people understand your design concept. This is my first-time contact Metal making, in previous four years, I have never thought metal when I try to make a model, I usually use foam, wood, clay, cardboard, etc. Because the course teaches us about these materials and how to use it, so they limited my ways of thinking. After 3 months of Digital Making study, I got lots of knowledge about processing metal, and it's easier than what I thought before. I master another good skill in model making, and it can save lots of time on the shaped simple model. During Assignment 1 by  compare my bowl and Jin's bowl, it shows lost of problems. Jin's Bowl It's the fir

Fuel Tank Making 1. Join the group  There are nine people in our group: Zeran Wang (Industrial Design) Tauqir Ullah (Industrial Design) Lornia Shi (Industrial Design) Kelvin Ip (Architecture) Benjamin Le (Industrial Design) Zoey Song (Architecture) Natalia Dou (Interior Architecture) Jin Son (Industrial Design) Jeremy Hizkia (Industrial Design) After group discussion  We decided to do the third fuel tank (by Andrew Wallace), cause several people of our group members have the experience of  3D model making software. The third fuel tank is more convenience than other two fuel tank. 2. Preparation  First time to try laser cutting, but we met a problem about using Rhino to open the 3D model files We can not open the files from the website and we try different software (Solid works, Rhino,360 Making, etc)    So we asked Russell for help, he said the files need to use Grasshopper  Plugging during Rhino. Then he shows us how t