Rhino: Object 1

Tried to make a vase/bin thing

Imported plans of dalek eggcup

Dalek eggcup piece on top circle on bottom. Used osnap to make sure the line was attached to two ends.

Swept two rails with the two profiles and the connecting line.

Capped planar holes to create a solid object

Used many different shapes to test out the boolean difference tool and create a hole/subtraction from the object.

Inverted cone

Polygon cone

A cylinder

Truncated pyramid

Smaller truncated pyramid so it actually fits inside the larger object

I then imported the stl for the smaller truncated pyramid model into 123D Make...

STL before construction technique added

Radial slices was the best construction technique for this model

Had to scale the model down to 50x50x50 and modify the amount of pieces, vertical count and horizontal count. Could not get the red disks to not be red so thought I would have a go a cutting it anyway

Plans for the Laser cutter

Cut from 4mm plywood

Pieces. Some of the parts are very thin and as can be seen I have broken some already. 

This model was difficult to piece together as the slots for the horizontal pieces did not line up when assembled the way the instructions suggested. As you can see vertical pieces are not fitting in properly 

I decided to recut the entire object and remodelled it by hand in illustrator so the parts lined up properly on assembly. 

As can be seen it fits together a lot better than the first one but is quite loose in some areas because of the way altered it. I have had to wind thread around it to keep it together.

(add image of threaded bin)

After reproducing this model I had a play around with the original, rotating disks and what not, and found that the instructions had mislead me and it actually assembled perfectly in a way different to how the instructions had put it. But I had been a bit aggressive in this process and snapped a few of the attachments so I am glad I produced a second model.