Surface Model Week 2 Process

 Surface Model Day 2 Process

This week we were tasked to unfold and get our models ready for the laser cutter. As seen
in my last weeks model it's pretty straight forward to unfold. I was able to unfold and prepare
for the laser cutter in a short amount of time. 

Here are the steps I took to unfold and prepare:

It was pretty easy to unfold and to make 2D. I was struggling at first of how to unfold because

I didn't have a base for my model. My friend suggested to add a base to the bottom and have it
all connected by that. She's an absolute genius and solved my problem. 

I wasn't sure if this is new but when you Make 2D it forms a new layer for the object you used
 the command for. Maybe it's a Mac OS thing. I'm just getting use to using my laptop for Rhino
and when I try to render my objects it crashes. I'm lucky to have my desktop so I can do all the
rendering from there. Thank goodness for one-drive so I can access my files cross-platform
quickly and easily. 

I ran into an odd problem when I was changing layers. I moved my lines into that layer and they
wouldn't change to the colour I set for my layer. However when I draw in that layer the lines are
the colour I set. It was very odd so I ended up drawing over the lines. 

I checked the property panel for my layer and found color was not set to by layer. Once I changed that setting all good and as you can see by my laser cut it's all good now. 

Here is my laser cut file:

Here are the renders: