CAD AND DIGITAL FABRICATION by Letecia

  Castle Surface Design Study Reverse Engineered Object 3D Printed Chess Set

  These are my  sketches everyone told me in the peer-to-peer to go with the indigenous one because it will be more challenging and unique. A lot of people help me come up with how to print the objects. like, putting some of the objects on its side to print to make it easy on me later. The Pawn is a Cree drum The Bishop is a hunting arrow The Rook is a Teepee The Knight is a jingle dancer The Queen is a dream catcher The king is a bison this is the e ntire set Mocked up on a chessboard time lapse of of the printing process final 3D prints

 In my  sketchbook, I came up with three ideas for my chess sets   Option one  is an indigenous set Option two  farm/ livestock  Option three cat and dog theme  I'm leaning towards the indigenous set. Although some pieces are very intricate I think they will work well. some pieces will have to be printed in half and on their side 

I have been having troubles with rhino with the exact curvature shapes of its design

  Converting my design to greyscale was a lot of work because there is a lot of intricate small details in my design. I wanted to make sure that they came through still in grayscale. I used a lot of shades in my design I also had a lot of weird issues come up where suddenly, I was not able to hatch.  I got a lot of errors of “self-intersecting loop was found no hatch”.  then I would investigate why there was this error, and then suddenly the error would disappear, and I could hatch again. Only after two hours of investigation without finding the actual error. so fun I had to reconfigure my design so it would be laid out nicely onto the piece of wood, that I was going to laser cut into.  I found, re-hatching my design was Zen full (once the error went away). I just put on an audiobook and slowly worked at it.  My layers and file was pretty organized so when it came to laser cutting, it went by very quickly via GIPHY via GIPHY   In the end, this p...