Assignment 2: Tank (intro+file preperation)

Project two brief: create a 1:1 scale template replicating the motorcycle fuel tank as a group, then individually create an aluminium skin to adhere to a third of its contours.

Group members: Our group has a good mix of architectural students and industrial students, as we naming ourselves the 'Kloud Nine', we worked productively and enjoyed so much learning from each other.

File preparation:

At our first meeting, we decided using three different ways to create the template, then see which one works the best. Here is the meeting records by our member Lornia:

After approaching these three methods and discussing, finally we decided to use the Laser cutting method to create a criss-crossed hollow 'Skeleton' model.

Then we moved on to work on the 3d modelling steps,

To be honest I did not involved too much on this step, Tauqir who is very professional about Rhino Grasshopper, as a leader he helped a lot in 3d modelling.

The final fuel tank looks like this:

Then we import it to Slicer for Fusion 360, and put it into laser cut files at last.

Some tricky problems:

While our group is trying very hard to make the template model in 3d, some problems are raised, credit to our group meeting recording:

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Summary: We went through a lot of testings to approach the final 'skeleton' template, that includes joints testing and paper masking testing. JOINTS TESTING Having the laser cut files ready, we started by testing the joints between each pieces. Different thickness of the joint gap we chose to test out, from 2.5mm-3mm. Testing on small joints, we decided to use 2.6mm thickness gap, and apply to the laser cut files. Here is the laser cutting video taken by Jin: ASSEMBLE FAILED Started out FIRST attempt of assembling, found out that the 2.6mm gap is too small to fit all the pieces together, then our skeleton was broken. :( Below: the broken template Paper masking testing: While we were waiting for the new laser cut template (changed to 3mm gap instead), we used 200gsm paper to cover up the broken template and test out the approximate shape of the fuel tank. ASSEMBLE SUCCESS So we tried our ...

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