I’m working on a demo for my moldmaking class and I thought I’d post a couple images here. I’m playing around with an application called Pepakura designer – it’s an “unfolding” kind of origami design application. It’s Shareware so you can download a fully functional (except for the saving) trial for free, and then buy [...]
NSCAD University an overview of departments using digital modeling ZCorp Zprinter 310 Rhino software, JewelCAD Vacuform & various plastics forming equipment RAM press NSCAD University has recently acquired the ZCorp 310 printer that sits in a new Plastics Lab, and will be shared by all departments. For the Ceramics Department, a particular interest is integrating [...]
I recently came across another free software tool for CAD/3d design. The software is called CoCreate by PTC, which offers both a commercial and a free personal version. The interface looks pretty straight forward and the software on the whole reminds me of another tool in this category called Alibre Design. Both tools seems to [...]
For both future use (at the proposed workshop, fall 2009) and probably here and there during this whole this project here are some links to the Art Tech Center and the tools that I can make available to you at MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art): www.mica.edu/tss/printing… www.mica.edu/tss/printing… there is also a Roland GX-300 vinyl [...]
Cool Instructable about using free and open source software (SketchUp and Inkscape) to design in 3D and then layout your pieces for 2D laser cutting. www.instructables.com/id/… sketchup.google.com code.google.com/p/sketchu… www.inkscape.org
