Ahhh… such a satisfying feeling.
This week, I wanted to create a miter joint inspired by Rick Powell’s design that was showed to us in class.
Rick Powell’s miter joint
I feel that my biggest and perhaps silly set back in this skill builder was within my Vectorworks drawing. When using the paint bucket 2D polygon tool, I didn’t realize it was creating a duplicate of the object it was forming. I kept bringing it to Mastercam and thinking to myself, I SWEAR this is a solid object! I talked out my frustrations with Julian and Aidan, and rechecked my drawing to find multiples of the shapes underneath each other.
Another lesson I reinforced was the tool path order. In my first run of the donut piece,