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Assignment 2: Tank (intro+file preperation)

  Project two briefcreate 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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