So as we sat down with the WikiHouse team this summer and talked about how we could collaborate for World Maker Faire, our goal was a no-brainer: design and build our own WikiHouse in just over a month. And when we read the WikiHouse modeling standards (make groups, use layers!), we knew that we just had to build one. When WikiHouse’s co-founder gave an inspiring Ted talk this past May, we were inspired to build one. Eventually, I grouped the remaining bits of airplane together and put them on a single layer that I called "Reference."įabbing with friends, a WikiHouse for World Maker Faire: When we first heard about WikiHouse, we knew we wanted to build one. So did the wire-looking thing (I'm not much of an engineering buff) that connected the tail to the cockpit canopy. Opening it in SketchUp, I began the process of simplifying the plane down to its most basic forms by hiding or deleting stuff I didn't need.
Navy fighter because I liked its shape, and because the model I found (by D.James) was beautifully executed. I started by touring the 3D Warehouse, collecting models of airplanes that might be good candidates. This year, I was determined to reflect his outsized interest in aviation by building him his very own airplane. Modeling a laser-cut Halloween costume: October is the time of year that all of my creative energy is focused into a single, solitary purpose: the design and making of an unreasonably complicated Halloween costume for my son. From there, we employed generate report and some spreadsheet magic to crank out a cut-list for our PVC stockpile from Home Depot. Once we knew the defining characteristics of our dome, we churned out the strut lengths using Domerama’s geodesic calculator and then advanced the design using Dynamic Components to create a fabricatable model. Satellite imagery for our site plan demonstrated that two twenty-foot diameter domes would fit perfectly, and a simple massing model proved that 3V ⅝ domes - with their extra head room - would provide plenty of height and floor space for people and furniture. We enlisted the help of our good pal Eric Schimelpfenig of and set out to turn a pile of PVC pipe into two huge geodesic domes and some comfortable furniture.Īfter exploring geodesic designs on 3D Warehouse - and a lot of discovery on Domerama - we jumped into SketchUp for conceptual design. Actually, the point of our exhibit - besides being a practice run for a future Burning Man trip - was to prove that SketchUp makes planning and building team DIY projects easier and more fun.
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