6) Parametric furniture Group Project (Final Week?)

Hello! This week has been hectic with exams and final projects going on. I believe our group hasn't done much cnc-ing since Friday. As of this moment that I'm writing this blog we have yet to begin the shelf from what I've heard. I've kept up with the Teams chat to see what's going on and if I could provide support digitally since the timing to meet up in person to sand and paint didn't work for me. The way our group split the workload, I was only in-charge of the digital portion of problem solving and designing. So this physical portion, I'm taking more of a back seat plus I'm busy with my studies since design students are still rushing their finals for an extra week compared to fine art kids. I contributed via Microsoft Teams chats this week.

Update, during my class, people from team 2 have sanded and cnc-ed most if not all of the bench along with the first shelf piece. Photos courtesy of Chloe and Lesley from the teams chat, the maze design "engraving" and pieces seem to look like the digital file did when Nadia, Lesley, and I were working on the digital design. I heard that the pieces weren't lining up perfectly together in person which is a little sad because digitally it seems so simple to just command BooleanDifference or Boolean Split which would make the pieces perfect. However with the cnc machine it's sadly not that perfect... We'll see how we can fix it in class tomorrow when we're all together at one place again. But since this is our final week, currently we only have our bench cut out, so we'll pretend that that is our only furniture we were doing all along and presenting to the class. Until the shelf is complete.

Here's some process photos:

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