Computer Aided Design

Computer Aided Design (CAD) has influenced my work tremendously from beginning to end. The process develops from the  concept and slowly with the help of hand drawn designs slowly begin to develop into various pieces, CAD allows you to take into consideration technical aspects of your pieces for manufacture as well, what you are capable of making at possibly how you would go about each component. Cad not only allows one to figure out technical difficulties but also design and aesthetic difficulties, to view if a piece will balance correctly, weight evenly, etc. CAD reveals ideas that the human brain won’t always think of without seeing it or understanding the capabilities of CAD. With vast intricate designs all over the world, CAD is slowly but surely becoming main stream.

Below is a demonstration of how CAD has influenced my work slowly.

            

         

                 

Piece 2

Process

After the battle with my first piece, I continued with my second. I would go back to my first piece at a later stage.

The Design Process.

The design of the piece went through multiple changes. and various design development from something that although 3D was in actual fact quite two dimensional. After playing around with it for a while going back and forth though design and what was coming from my first piece, I eventually discovered a way in which created the piece to become more volumetric.

Figure 1 CAD Drawings

 

 The Manufacturing Process.

After Prepping the necessary wire needed.

1.00mm square wire and 0.5mm round wire, along with granules. the process slowly began.

Using the CAD technical drawings, it allowed me to create the main structure fairly simply and quickly with the main structures complete for both earrings in a day and a half, being able to start on the "molecule" design fairly soon allows me to figure out any further complications I might have.

    Figure 2 Exterior Structure        Figure 3 Inner and outer structure

Figure 4 Bending Structure        Figure 5 Placing Structure         Figure 6 Soldering Structure

The above figures are images of the main structure being built and put together.

The molecule design inspired from the crystal  lattice structure of crystaline structures is then applied to the main structures before applying them in a 3 dimensional form

Figure 7 and Figure 8 Development of molecular lattice.

Figure 9 Formation of molecular lattice in main structures.

Figure 10 Granules joining the wire  for the "molecule bonds" to join.

This piece is currently still under manufacture.