TheSpaceWatermelon's Planet

 Bellow is the updated digital sketch of the dog clock design. I went with the dog design as it would allow me to focus on some moving parts and making a compact but cute clock that would fit in with some of the decor already on my desk. when it comes to mounting, I planned to have it to be self standing and mire like a sculptural piece that sits on a desk or shelf rather than it being hung on a wall

 For my first clock I started off ambitiously. I wanted to make some kind of design so that when the clock strikes 12:00pm it would set of a marble down a track before being lifted back up to the top by a mechanism in a clear tunnel that will then put it back in the starting bucket up top to reset. I think making some kind of flap attached to the minute hand so when it reaches 12 it will knock over the bucket sending the marble (or possibly sever marbles) down the track. I know the core elevator shaft would probably be housed in a clear tube of some sort but the clock face and track could be 3d printed while the hands could be resin printed so they have a more translucent look to them like the designs inside of a marble. For the second I thought of items I needed in my room. So I thought up an idea for a shelf/display based off one of my childhood toys with a clock imbedded in the roof of the building. This concept would most likely hang on the wall and has small shelves under some...

 When it came to laser cut for my snail I admittedly had to make a small modification. you see, I used the 1mm kerf of the water jet to my advantage when designing the swirl of the shell, leaving the file as just a line so when the water jet cuts it out it will leave a cut out of the spiral but when it came to laser cutting it out, I had to add a small offset to emulate that because the laser has next to no kerf and otherwise it wouldn't had been a good representation of what it would look like after being cut out of the waterjet. I did also add a paper tab and some score line for only the paper version for ease of construction but in the finished copper version I will print out a base shell for me to bend the metal around, thus, the dotted lines will not be needed in final product. (Laser cutter curves on left, Water jet curves on right (not including kerf)) When laser cutting, I first did it on construction paper which worked well and came out as expected and I am satisfied with ...

 Going from left to right we have the laser cutter lines, the water cutter lines, the copper render of the water cutter result, and the rebuilt snail. and here is the top view of all the flat curves and surfaces from above while working on this project I found that unfolding the snail was easy enough, assembling it after you add the water cutter kerf however, difficult as all hell. It seemed no matter what I did, flow along surface (FlowAlongSrf) was not working at all at first. After hours of pain and confusion I figured it out... mostly. I found that unrolling the base extrude of the shell I had made after rotating the sides of the shell up by 90 degrees and lining it back up with the flattened body that was now split in half so it would finally work... except when it would flow along the surface in every orientation imaginable except the one I wanted. Sideways, upside down, off into space, glitchy indescribably broken surfaces, I saw it all trying to get this shell to work until...

 For my surface model I struggled with an idea for a while before deciding on doing a Snail. My snail ended up a bit smaller flattened then what would fit in the 6inchx6inch square we are going to use for the project but I planed to make a scale accurate model in rhino then size it up once the proportions are right. I also found out then when you flattened it it looked... Uh... a little phallic lets say. but it is what it is and I was to far in to change it anyways. Going into rhino, I took the measurements with the caliper to get the length (5 inches) and width (1 inch) as a starting point before building up the head/neck cut out and the tail cut out. before mirroring it after modeling that, I moved onto making the shell, making it solid before exploding it and unrolling it, checking the measurements next to my hand modeled one to make sure it was the right length, with it was when considering the reason its a tiny bit shorter is because of the little section between the tail and ...

 For this first project I decided to make a silly little wizard hat that would fit on my favorite stuffed animal named JellyBean if I where to actually print it out as some kind of paper craft. I started with the brim by making two octagons before making a small octagon at the tip of the hat instead of a point for ease of flattening and folding before connecting the edge of the inner octagon of the brim to the edge of the small octagon on top.  Because of the angle of the sides of the hat I found it difficult if not impossible to get it to lay flat with Rotate3D, so I exploded the form and used UnrollSrf. It wasn't ideal as all the parts where now separated but they where easily put back together using the Orient command. After flattening I decided that this wizard hat lacked some ✨ Whimsy ✨ but since we couldn't just paint on some details onto the hat,  I decided to add some little star cut outs/holes to the sides to add some ✨ W himsy ✨ while still adhering to the ...