Intermediate Rapid Prototyping Schedule
Spring 2017, Section A3
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Date Lecture Office Hours Project/Assignment Hand-in
Week 1 Mon 1/16 Dr. Martin Luther King Holiday. No classes today.
Wed 1/18 Course overview and intro to mechanisms. Sign up for fire extinguisher training
Week 2 Mon 1/23 Levers and gears.
Files: LittleManVee.zip
Penelope
5:30-6:30
Wed 1/25 Simulation. Meg
5:30-6:30
Assignment 1: Automaton
Week 3 Mon 1/30 Articulated motion. Penelope
5:30-6:30
Wed 2/1 Intermittent motion and complex linkages. Mechanism files for motion study. Cozmo's lift. Meg
5:30-6:30
Assignment 2: Mechanisms Automaton due
Week 4 Mon 1/30 Procedurally-generated objects. Intro to Grasshopper. Penelope
5:30-6:30
Wed 2/8 Grasshopper part 2. Meg
5:30-6:30
Mechanism due
Week 5 Mon 2/13 Grashopper part 3: lists and trees.
Torus model in Rhino, Slicer assignment in Grasshopper.
Penelope
5:30-6:30
Assignment 3: Shape slicer
Wed 2/15 Grasshopper part 4.
Demo files: empty-nodes.gh and data-matching.gh
Demo notes
Meg
5:30-6:30
Week 6 Mon 2/20 Autodesk's ReMake and MeshMixer. Penelope
4:30-6:30
Assignment 4: Statue Slicer due
Wed 2/22 Grasshopper tricks. Surfaces in SolidWorks.
Demo files: assignment4a.3dm and assignment4a.gh Videos: Automata videos, Surface modeling in SolidWorks
Meg
5:30-6:30
Final projects
Week 7 Mon 2/27 Penelope
4:30-6:30
Statue due
Wed 3/1 Design exercise. Cozmo-back.SLDPRT Meg
5:30-6:30
Week 8 Mon 3/6 AutoDesk's 123 DMake (free). Slides.
Paper folding with Pepakura Designer.
Pepakura resources: Tutorial 1; Tutorial 2; Video
Penelope
4:30-6:30
Wed 3/8 No more classes. Work on final projects. Meg
5:30-6:30
Sun 3/12 Final projects due.
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