Original tutorials and reflection 2

Link of tutorial 2:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3-YxRMU_c12UnBBWHd3MDZUMkE

Original tutorials and reflection 1

Link of the tutorial 1:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3-YxRMU_c12a0VuQ0xJaThGOGM

Interdisciplinary Skin

Assignment 4 requires us to create an aluminium skin to adhere to the contours of another student's 3D template.

I'm doing Elijah's template of a glue bottle, who is from Architecture. http://zzhdigitalmaking.blogspot.com.au/

 

Elijah's work for last assignment.

To start my aluminium skin for the template is to cut the aluminium sheet into a suitable size.

Then trace the shape of the template onto the aluminium sheet.

Cut the sheet into the shape of the template. The red scissors is for right handed people.

The next step is to roll the sheet into a slightly curved shape and make it to fit to the template and the lower body of glue bottle.

 

After, make the shoulder of the template out. In this step, it's needed to hits to the sheet with care. Place the neck of the sheet onto the cuboid platform to push the end of the neck inside.

Always place the sheet back on the template to see how fit is it approaching and draw lines with a marker to see which part of the sheet needs to hit on.

 

Then I found that the top part of the template is gradually narrowing to a point. Then I drew the lines of the top layers of the template, and this would be where I'm going to hit to make the sheet to bend downward with a wedge-shape wood stick as a platform. In this step, it is advisable to hit the sheet layer by layer to get a better result.

 

The following step is to hit the top part of the skin on the slim curved metal strip to enable the sheet to wrap the template. And also hit the corner of the skin shoulder and the two sides of the skin at the end of the metal strip to fit to the template.

These are my final result of the skin.

 

Reflection

I suggest that it's necessary to hit the neck and top of the skin layer by layer, bit by bit to get the result of narrowing and wrapping down as a bottle cap. And the body of the skin also needs to bend down slightly from the central line to the sides.

In this assignment, I found that to make a better-matched skin for the template, you always need to be patient and hit the aluminium sheet gently bits by bits. Otherwise, in some cases, the edge of the sheet would start to tear and then the more you hit, the more it will tear. Or, the aluminium sheet would get over-hit, and it will be hard to get back the previous shape.