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I was looking for some things that I could cut on the laser to include in kits sent home with kids during distance learning and found these three puzzles.  They were quick and easy to cut, and gave me some projects to help them build some basic Rhino skills.  The two cube puzzles are similar to the 3D Puzzle exercise in chapter 6 of the Rhino Level 1…

Model:   …

 Rhino home page, click 'Learn'

'Learning to use Rhino', Select 'SubD Modeling'…

Here is the second Carbon Fiber bike frame tutorial.

An organic frame design.  Great project for students that have a creative side.

Given the location of the front and rear sprockets, as well as the location of the crank set and head post  design a 'bike' frame .  I would encourage exploring several iterations . 

When I was teaching one of my students (Heath M.) built a non traditional bike as his senior project.  A variation of it was latter put…

Projects to go with this series of updated/changed shed models:

Research and 'purchase' each and every part of the shed model. Be aware of the lengths of lumber to be purchased vs the length of lumber to be cut on the job.

Sketch each part of the shed beginning with the pier block.  (Both Isometric sketches AND orthographic sketches.)

Sketch the entire shed…

If you have grown tired of teaching CAD and the students roll their eyes at the concept of drawing another widget.

Try adding some creativity . Simple rules - many answers.   This project utilizes the Sub D tools in Rhino V7.

Starting with some hard points (points that are given and don't change) design a bike frame.

The only rules are :  You must use the four locations :  Front and rear wheel hub centers, The location…

These single pages are added to 'prime the pump' with basic skills for drafting on paper or with Rhino.

  Books and other affordable drafting resources

Check back for additions to these pages.  Download…

The 'basics' is what the sketching and drafting posts are about.  In today's school environment there are other ways to teach design.  This is an attempt to fill in some blanks for teachers who have spent little time sketching and drawing.  Simply put, it is our attempt to encourage time with a pencil and paper for both teachers and students. 

Build up your library.  There are many $5.00 books 'out there'. …

  Inspiration from Pete's one-pager:    Scaling Exercise.  

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The 'basics' is what the sketching and drafting posts are about.  In today's school environment there are other ways to teach design.  This is an attempt to fill in some blanks for teachers who have spent little time sketching and drawing.  Simply put, it is our attempt to encourage time with a pencil and paper for both teachers and students. 

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Graph Paper digitizer doc file…

Sketching.docx

Here is a short story of how Sketching took a team of Lynden students to MIT.

If you would like to know more I would  be happy to provide details.

I hope you can use this to partially answer the question -- why are we doing this?

Dave

  Build a House: Foundation, Framing, Terrain, Blocks…

Here are a set of videos I made for my students for our usage of Rhino 6 for Mac. There's a lot I'd like to develop more of, but for now, you can share as you'd like:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh3iFL9dzjQR4XIAoq1CJ8EJzgcwBmhdY

Rhino Viewports Explained

Intro to 3D Printing

Daniel Aghassi, a 9th grade student at North Creek High School in Bothell, Washington, was very eager learn…

A model taken from the L1 training manual.

Teaching the Contour command with Project to Cplane, and Remap to x,y plane for laser…

1/8" Baltic Birch plywood, paper drinking-straw spars:…

2d to 3d House     

(not intended as a structural house model; much is missing)

Use your 2d floor plan lines and curves, foundation cross sections…

Creating Geometry for Laser Cutting and Engraving

Daniel Aghassi, a 9th grade student at North Creek High School in Bothell, Washington, was very eager learn Rhinoceros.

He decided to create a series of Absolute Beginners Tutorials for…