MAKE SOMETHING BIG!!!

I’ve been really excited for this week, since my apartment is in dire need of a chair. Our living room just has 1 sofa for 4 people, so it’s often a tight squeeze.

Design

I wanted a lounge chair, so I first sketched it up.

Anthony printed out these test joints, which helped me decide to use 0.433 inches as my gap width.

Upon CADing, I tried aligning the pieces together to see if everything fits together. Trying to figure out how to connect this diagonal facing seat back with the actual seat was difficult, due to the extra spacing created by the diagonal.

I edited my pieces to account for this diagonal, and now I have a clean fit!

I then went into manufacturing mode, and created a manufacturing model where I could arrange my parts onto a … 4 x 8 foot sheet.

I completely forgot that the EECS shop only handles up to 4 x 4 sheets, and designed everything with 4 x 8 foot specs.
Fortunately, Anthony told me that there was still hope! The architecture shop could handle 4 x 8 sheets, so he gave me their contacts to see if I could go over to their studio.