Excel Data Sheets - Heck Yea

This is a major milestone for me, I need to post an update I guess as far as the work but I just made the Excel Data Sheets work in Digital Project (CATIA) !!!!!



And for the translation, the data sheets are a bi-directional link between parameters setup in the software to contol elements (length, height, mulipliers, etc) and excel. So changes can be made in excel and be reflected in the design software.

I'm still having problems where the software hangs up and I have to update the parts one at a time. :( but that could be my construction techniques. More research to go, but...this is great.

Just a wacky update to the original form

Nothing too exciting but just wanted to try to really distort the original "rigid" framework to see if it would indeed flex and adjust to a more fluid framework.



the system of parts does flex but even though I can distort it drastically it never really loses the rigid quaility of being tied into the rings and offsets

So I got one successful render.....

Tried the complex section cut rendering once more tonight and out of 4 passes it made it once again to 3 3/4 and crashed. But I did manage to get one simple rendering done. It doesn't have any context around it, so it really makes it kind of blurry but overall it's better than nothing I suppose. I'm going to try and loosen up the rigid sphere and see if I can get a few more screen captures before school starts back on Monday.

Mid - Review

Here is my Mid-Review (meaning MIDTERM, halfway through the semester) materials. The form is obviously (by reading posts) generated through the use of digital project. Alterations are based on a single paramater. Varying this one input number allows the formulated changes to adjust the outcome.

Criteria for the presentation were 5 startch models, an animation, drawings, process work, sketches, etc.

Model Renderings were supposed to take place in Rhino 3d using Vray. Once again, just like last semester, Vray and I didn't get along. So after half a dozen software crashes, one instance of running out of memory during the render and who knows what other demons that live inside this gray box of plastic and silicon. I didn't have any pretty renderings.

Although my printed models were sweet.



The video is pretty slow so you might want to skip a couple times, the second half is faster.

Working with Digital Project (Catia) we have progressed through several tutorials, working as a base knowledge of the software to promote our ideas. The biggest accomplishment, what is called powercopies, allows you to copy an entity and all of it's related information. Depending on how you build this entity and arrange the surrounding information, is what drives how efficient or inefficient your ability to copy the item is. The setup I have decided to work from is an array of hexigons. Following the polygon from the fruit, I found the patterns derived from an array of hexigons and circles to be quite interesting. This pattern permits quite the array of possibilities generated from the same base point.

Digital Flowering

First animated project out of Catia. I wanted to try to make a blooming flower so I used a series of offset planes and circles. The Base is fixed and the offset concentrics are driven by the radius of the top ring. The completed result is using the form pictured at right, offset and rotated to create the 3 layers, then arrayed in a circle.Based on geometry and mathematics the end result is a blooming flower. (although artisticly a bad representation) But for a beginner with this software I'm pretty happy. The flashing in the animation is from the screen captures of the software, the model turns red before it updates changes. The red and orange is colors I applied, before I realized the red flashing would occur. Next time I'll take a different approach.