Bob Koll's Blog (126)

Drafting.. A look at a 'basic' worth revisiting

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'. …

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Added by Bob Koll on November 3, 2020 at 12:40pm — No Comments

Sketching to Scale...Kalama High School, Cory Torppa

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

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Added by Bob Koll on November 3, 2020 at 12:38pm — No Comments

Sketching, Sketching/drafting book, and a Sketching Packet to encourage pencil/paper projects

New: …

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Added by Bob Koll on September 18, 2020 at 9:16am — No Comments

Sketching 'one-pagers' by Pete

Graph Paper digitizer doc file…

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Added by Bob Koll on September 17, 2020 at 3:10pm — No Comments

Build a House with Rhino. 3 models & 3 videos

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

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Added by Bob Koll on August 14, 2020 at 9:33am — No Comments

Canoe 24" Laser Cut video and model

A model taken from the L1 training manual.

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

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Added by Bob Koll on May 16, 2020 at 9:13am — No Comments

Airfoils, Design and CNC or Laser cut

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

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Added by Bob Koll on May 11, 2020 at 10:08am — No Comments

2d to 3d House for practicing Sweeps, Extrusions, Deformation tools, etc

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…

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Added by Bob Koll on May 5, 2020 at 8:56am — No Comments

Deck Design: 1 Deck 2 Stairs 3 Railing. Research, Sketch, Report

PART 1, Deck Design Research, Sketch, Report: Output ideas pdf

Model to download for Output ideas project…

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Added by Bob Koll on April 29, 2020 at 4:25pm — 1 Comment

One Pagers: Tips and Tricks: Short, topical, ideas for you to consider

Blue Tape Trick…

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Added by Bob Koll on April 29, 2020 at 8:34am — No Comments

STL mesh remodeled with Rhino for an LED light socket

Video: STL model remodeled w Rhino - video (7 mins)

Models: STL model remodeled w Rhino -start

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Added by Bob Koll on April 20, 2020 at 9:55am — No Comments

Cap Screw Project: Research, Sketch, Report

Cap Screw Research One Page pdf…

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Added by Bob Koll on April 14, 2020 at 10:03am — No Comments

The Daily News 4-9-20 Hospital Face Shields, Longview Washington

The Daily News article 4-9-2020…

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Added by Bob Koll on April 9, 2020 at 10:50am — No Comments

Kalama High School's 3d printers are busy making local Hospital Face Shields

Kalama High School CTE teacher is busy making face-shields for the Peace Health Hospital, St. John Foundation

All the information about the 3d printing of the face-shields is here including the downloadable stl file. Open…

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Added by Bob Koll on April 9, 2020 at 9:08am — 1 Comment

Video from McNeel Miami using Grasshopper Sudohopper Game

Andres is sharing his videos and it is, for sure, worth watching.

Download the 'game' and play along with him:

Sudohopper, a good way to learn…

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Added by Bob Koll on April 9, 2020 at 9:01am — No Comments

ShowEnds command one-page

Added by Bob Koll on April 7, 2020 at 2:31pm — No Comments

Leaders one-page

Download the model to practice changing Leader settings…

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Added by Bob Koll on April 7, 2020 at 2:08pm — No Comments

Rhino Educational Support and Resources during COVID-19

Greetings from Rhino in Education. We know that schools are working remotely during this time and want to let you know we have support and resources available for you and your students.

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