Sharing a Fusion 360 File

Hi All,

If you need to share a Fusion 360 File, for troubleshooting for example, you can do so by sharing a public link, as described in this tutorial:




Kind regards

Russell and Kate

Free Photoshop and Illustrator

Hi All,

We've just been made aware that Adobe Creative Cloud is is temporary available for student personal device installation:

https://www.myit.unsw.edu.au/software-students

Hope this helps.

Regards

Russell and Kate

Recording your presentation using PowerPoint

Hi All,

Here is a great video showing you how to record your video presentation in PowerPoint and then save it as a MPEG-4 to upload to Youtube:



To upload a video to Youtube follow this tutorial:



Then to embed the video in your blog (I have always done it the second way he describes and found it works well):




Regards

Russell

Blogger Image Error and Backing Up you Data

Hi All,

Some of you might have noticed that some of the images you have posted are not showing, a large minus sign is appearing instead.

The technical team at Blogger are aware of the problem and are working towards a solution.

EDIT: Casandra from Daniel Falzon's tutorial group beat them to it:





When you are uploading images to your blog make sure you do so from your local computer, rather than copying a URL from cloud storage (that way, if you shift or delete the image from your local drive or cloud storage it won't disappear from your blog).

Also, you should always make multiple backups of the work you are doing. We use multiple external hard drives and cloud storage (Dropbox, UNSW OneDrive, iCloud, Google Docs, etc) as well as saving things on the local machine. This way, if any one device or network was to fail we can easily retrieve the data from another location.

Backing up physical drawings and models with scans and photos is also really important. Take multiple shots of models and make sure your photos of images would allow them to be reproduced well (blurry or shadowed photos are no good if the dog eats the originals). 

Regards

Russell and Kate

Student Blogs

Hi All,

Your blogs are important for a few different reasons: they help you to communicate with your tutor, to share your work with other students in your tutorial group, to test out the quality of your work BEFORE your final submissions and it will be marked as an outcome itself (so showing process work leading up to your final submissions is also important ... don't worry if your development/working models, sketches, etc are rough you'll get marks for your blog by showing us the whole process).

For reference and inspiration, below are some links to some good student blogs so far:

From Nic Snowden's group: Muhammad Arriff Danial

From Daniel Connel's group: Vicki Chen

From Jack Beasley's group: Sydney Vasin

From Daniel Falzon's group: Alyssa Chau

From Ellen Woolley's group: Ada Mo

Regards

Russell and Kate

Photoshop Materials Collage

Hi All,

Below are two video tutorials to help you add materials to the photographs of your physical sketch models.

In this video the designer adds materials to a cube he rendered from Revit, but it without any textures or detail it looks just like a paper model. The best tip here was placing the base image (in your case it would be the photo of your sketch model) on top of all the subsequent layers and setting the layer mode to multiply.

   

This video the designer steps through some techniques for using masks and linking layers in a similar way to our earlier composite image tutorials, but there are some great workflow enhancements:





And finally, one place to find 2d textures of materials (that are tileable so that they blend seamlessly from one to the other) is www.textures.com 

Some great skills to be learned here, enjoy!

Russell and Kate

Sketch Model of Your Room

Hi All,

One of your classmates, Jatin Midha, summarised the Week 5 task of "making a better version of your room", really well ... he said:

We "improve/add/change elements of our room to showcase the folding techniques we learned through the videos".

Looking back to the Studio Activities Week 5 (to be completed at home) on Moodle this is one of the videos he is referring to:



The Studio Activities Week 5 links to more of the videos Jatin is referring to here: http://foldingtechniques.com/folding-techniques

We should be able to see evidence of these techniques applied to the model of your room. For example, in one model you might use the concentric scoring technique to create a new surface that joins a wall to the ceiling. In a second sketch model you might create a set of "masu" boxes to suggest storage shelves or a library. Making a better version of your room doesn't have to be strictly functional though ... some of your folding showcases could be simply to create a more exciting space.

If you are finding the 1:10 scale difficult with respect to the cardboard or paper you have to hand, you might change scales ... but communicate your justification for this on the blog post which has your sketch models.

If you have other flat/sheet materials available feel free to try these folding techniques on them. The Week 5 lecture is worth looking at again to show you how common household items can be reused as model making materials.   

Remember to take plenty of photos and upload them to your blog. Adding human figures and other editing in Photoshop could also help communicate your folding showcase, utilising skills you already have.

Regards

Kate and Russell