Two major constraints for this week. 3d print something that fits inside a 1" cubic bouding box, and make something with moving parts. So I decided to make something that could be printed inside the bounding box but then expand to be "larger" after it was done printing.

This is the basic unit. it is repeated, but printed as nested into itself. Therefore, the part should be able to hinge post printing.

Nested into itself in a closed loop.

Nested into istelf in a spiral.

With this configuration, I realized I had a lot of unused real estate in the middle of the bounding box, so I decided to fill it with something useful just in case this hing piece didn't work.

So I thought I could fit some chopsticks holders in the middle.

1" cubic bounding box.

Left over space made into three chopsticks holders.

Lil chopstick holder.

Printed.

Pretty small.

Pretty effective.

Hinged piece printed.

Unfolding.

When the piece unfolds it can hook back onto its end to form variations of a closed loop.

Unfolded variation.

Scanning a clay Peony.

First try result in rhino.

Second try result in rhino.

Attempting a clean up work flow. Trim mesh command.

I isolated all the large pedals, until I had just small fragments left and them deleted them.

Cleaned.

Cleaned.

I also wanted to explore how to take the zero thickness surfaces and give them some thickness in case I wanted to reprint the flower in the future.

Lofting and Sweep2 Rail test.

Useful to know that there is a duplicate whole mesh boundary command that will create a polyline at the edge of the mesh all at once. Also, at the end here I tried to experimenbt with a way to tie all the pedals back together.