Ghosted Black
Ghosted Colored
Ghosted Black and Colored
Concept:
My initial idea was to create a lamp with a lid that also doubled as a frame for my engraved object. However, with the numerous times, I restarted and changed my idea I had to ditch the idea of a frame for the lamp. So I made a separate object which I talk further about in my engraving blog post.
I was inspired by Quinn Baldacci's rocket lamp with the lid. I thought that was an ingenious idea to create a cavity for the light bulb while also keeping a design seamless and uninterrupted by large holes. I created two designs that integrated the lid aesthetic. First was recreating the idea from Quinn Balacci's rocket and second was the bell shape inspired from Taiwanese Buddhist Temples known as a Pagoda. I used an actual A-Frame design for the body of the lamp.
I saw the pyramid shape in Tamara Brennan's pyramid lamp and DISENO Y MANUFACTURA DIGITAL CAD/CAM's clear (acrylic) hanging lamp. Their waffle style was what I wanted to replicate: using the corners as the rib for the horizontal cuts, plus the hanging lamp was gorgeous. I would have enjoyed incorporating chains into the project, but I made a decision to make the lamps static on a flat surface instead. I didn't have to worry about gravity and all the annoying small holes for the chain links.
I also was planning on using two materials for this project, so I also needed to figure out which ribs and which cuts were going to be what material. Unfortunately, acrylic sheets are not cut to a traditional thickness measurement that matched wood sheets, so I had to be precise about where my inset slots were going to be.
Laser Cut Sheets
Modeling Technique:
I used polyline a majority of the time to create unique shapes. I used curves to create an A-frame which I then polar arrayed 10x to get the style I wanted with a the flat triangle/ asymmetrical rectangle, I Boolean Unioned, Boolean Differenced, Boolean 2 objects multiple times. I used project to slice the lids and the base. I alt tapped to duplicate shapes. I used spiral, twist, and pipe to create the light bulb inside as well as Interpolate Curve. I used revolve to create the lid.
I had a hard time deciding which style I wanted. I was going to make a frame for my engraved tile that was built into the lamp, but it just looked ugly. I spent a lot of time deleting and revising my ideas. The three styles were mostly from manipulating array polar and boolean 2objects. I really wanted to incorporate an A-frame style into the design with a pyramid. I ditched the pyramid idea because it covered up a lot of the triangles that were created from the polar array also I used contour multiple times with many failures with that pyramid shape. Contour was used after I figured out which design to work with. I have two materials, so I alternated the lid and the base as wood for a size difference of .1875 inches apart. And the middle part which I call the torso is .220 inches apart. I hope that small difference in thickness won't matter. I felt like I might have messed up somewhere in deciding where to cut due to the size difference.
I used surface --> planar curves as well as extrudeCrv several times in the contour and section process. I messed up a lot and needed very precise measurements when creating the complex waffle structure. I followed the tutorial, as well as the class discussions. I used Orient for the piped ribs. I used split to cut them. Again I might have messed up somewhere, so I'm hoping the print works. This design is very abstract to me, and It has become an ordeal for me when I can't quite figure out how the slices will fit.
I also hope the hole I created for the cord works as well. I didn't like that the cord could just freely sit anywhere through the design, so I had to create a base for the lightbulb to sit in.
Keyshot 1 w/ Reference
Keyshot 2
Materials:
In Keyshot:
I used glass for the vertical pieces and the glass on the lightbulb, I used hard plastic for the lightbulb base and soft plastic for the cord and textured wood for everything else. I changed the colors of everything except the glass.
I liked the bump on the wood, so I made it slightly more pronounced. I think originally it's at 0.5, I just bumped it up to 0.6.
WIP
In real life:
2 - 24" x 48" x .220" sheet of acrylic, $56 each
5 - 24" x 48" x .1875" sheet of MDF. $7.42 each (didn't end up being .1875 for all of them)
Home depot advertises, Medium Density Fiberboard (Common: 1/4 in. x 2 ft. x 4 ft.; Actual: 0.216 in. x 23.75 in. x 47.75 in.) and even that is still wrong.
Westinghouse Snap-in Candelabra base socket, 6'.
1 LED Lightbulb.
1 bottle of Gorilla Glue
3 bottles of Locktight Super Glue
Tears
Keyshot 3 w/ Cut Sheets
This lamp design was definitely not for beginners. I had experiences I will never want to reproduce again. MDF is not worth the effort. It's too fragile, and Home Depot does not cut every 1/4 slab the same. I had 3 different sizes when I bought 5 boards. Needless to say, none of my slots worked with MDF. It just broke or became very brittle. I think one vertical piece survived intact.
Lamp 1
Lamp 2
Lamp 3
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