Objectives:

I. Announcements

• Course References
• Resource note: Computing Center Documents Roo

II. Review of Student Progress

III. Designing in 3D

Design direction depends on interpretation

• Design Process:  
• Cycle of Think, Make, Look
• Step wise refinement: Generate options, examine and select one, refine parts
• Creating design alternatives:  practice improves agility

Formal Operations:

• D'Arcy Thompson's On Growth and Form
  1 2 3 4
• Geometric Transformations: translate, scale, rotate, mirror
  • Order of operations DO matter
    Selection set DOES matter
• Parametric Variations: numbers and dimensions
  • Parametric Variation in Grimshaw's Waterloo Terminal
• Rhythms and Patterns
  • Shape Grammars Overview by Terry Knight, MIT
    
• Special Conditions:  bookends, head + tail, center, axes

Aalto furniture at Artek

Plecnik

IV. Assignment

V. Modeling

In labs, documentation is under Start Menu > Program Files > Extra Files > FormZ Extras

For multiple viewports, Windows menu > Window Frames

Parametric Objects (control handles) vs. Plain

Extrusion
Lathing
Lofting

A. Derivative Objects

TUT 7.3* from parts of other objects, TUT 7.5 Parallel objects

B. Protrusions

TRY IT: Simple roof forms

VI.  Setup & Control

Project Units

Precision Tools

• Grid Snap
• Angle Snap
• Object Snaps
• Coordinate Grid

Absolute vs. Relative coordinates
Query operations

VII.  Ways to model

Direct 3D Doghouse

• Extruded Mass, Hollowed
• Boolean Mass, Boolean Void
• Inserted Planes for Details

2D to 3D Doghouse

• Glass Plane Drawings as Guides
• 2D Plan, Extruded vertically
• Gingerbread House

VII. Vocabulary  

• Selection Set (elements chosen for editing)
• Attribute (characteristic)
• Relative Coordinates (distance from another location)
• Absolute Coordinates (according to world origin)
• Geometric Transformation (change of location, size, proportion, orientation)
• Parametric Variation (alternate created by changing size, angle or number)
• Topological Levels (point, segment, face, object, etc.)
• Derivative Object (a form that is created from an other)