MakerCaseLamp
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Image 1 : Sketch
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| Image 2 : References |
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Image 3 : Rhino Ghosted
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| Image 4 : Rhino Ortho w/Drawer |
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| Image 5 : Laser |
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| Image 9 : Orthographic |
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Image 10 : Lamp in Environment
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| Image 11: Lamp Details |
Concept I don't have extensive knowledge of interior decor but I have been seeing a lot of Anthropology's displays + store decor. They hire visual artists to create displays and I particularly liked Dirtsa's "High Chest, Cute Knobs" knob display. I wanted to make a playful chest and while looking around I saw several chests where their charm came from their handles. The handles looked like flowers to me and so I searched flowers until I found the lotus flower. Lilypads and lotus flowers were simpler and fun shapes that would add charm to my chest.
Techniques
To make my drawers I began with rectangles, once I figured out the sizing of them, I extruded them. The tricky part was making my lotus flowers and lilypads. I made a few closed curves and moved their points around to create petal shapes -- adding a circle for the "bulb". The tool I used to join together the curves was CrvBoolean, I then chose the areas I wanted to keep from the curves and created a single curve. I then extruded the curve.
I kept the joint petal curve and the rectangles so that I could copy and paste them to be vectors, so the wood would have the line of where to place my drawers. I put the 3 extruded rectangles on the side so that they would be cut separately and allow me to have a 3D effect. I also put 3 extruded lotus flowers on the side for the same reason. I extruded all at 0.25 inches. Each "drawer" rectangle had two lotus flowers, one a curve on the surface labeled for vector and one that I used booleandifference to cut out a spot where I could slide in the lotus flowers.
Lastly, to make my raster engraving, I played around with the scale of a copy of my original join petal curve to make a slightly different design, once I found a size I liked, I used hatch to mark the surface. (In order to render my 3D model I made a surface using planarsrf for this joint petal curve.)
In Keyshot, I used pine wood because it looked the most similar to birch plywood unstained. I also used matte white paint for my lotus flower wood pieces because I wanted to highlight the flower. I plan to paint the flowers in post processing. I used mahogany wood to model my raster engraving as it would be slighlty darker. Lastly, I used emissive warm light on my "lightbulb" which was just a sphere and cylinder joined in order to show where the light would peek through in my physical model. In deciding where to cut out the flowers, I would stop halfway through my design to test it out in keyshot. I am really happy with my design and hope the physical product looks very similar.
Post-processing Update: I used loctite glue to put together the pieces of wood and found it easiest to assemble by adding the bottom piece to 1/4 walls instead of gluing the walls first. I wouldn't have been able to glue the inner part or slide it into the other four walls once they were closed. I also used the glue to glue on the drawers then the lotus flower cutouts. I painted the lotus flower cutouts as I had previously mentioned. I used two coats of acrylic paint and achieved the desired effect and make them pop. Too much light was coming from the holes in the lamp so I covered them from the inside with paper acetate and glued the paper on. Finally, I glued the socket inside of the lamp as I found the lamp stood best this way.
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