DesignReForm

Hi all, today I randomly decided to do an experiment with Inventor.
I decided to call this the "Wave Wall", what you see took about 20 min to model.



Don't mind the texture, I just wanted it to not be the default gray shading that Inventor assigns to all new parts.

It's odd to think of this file as a "part", as Inventor calls it. I prefer thinking of it as a design that has its own local coordinates. Once this is included in an assembly, the assembly will have coordinates of its own, and the local coordinates of this part may or may not match that of the assembly in which it is contained.

If this were part of a house, than the house could be the assembly containing this wall.

Note: I obviously did not care enough to assign meaningful names to any of the items in the browser pane (the window to the left which shows the "construction history" of the part).
At work, I usually do assign meaningful names to browser items, especially because the browser can often get very long, and one could easily get lost.
Down the road I may end up assigning names to browser items in this little experiment of mine.

If anyone's interested in knowing how this was modeled, please let me know. Otherwise, next time I randomly find another 20 minutes, I'll randomly take this model further ahead in some random direction.

Can you post the part file

Thanks for posting it

Dave

http://rapidshare.com/files/167782520/Wave_Wall_01.ipt.html

I decided to try rapidshare for the first time.
Are there better ways to share files? I don't have a personal ftp account, and have only used photobucket for image sharing.

I had more time to experiment.
This time I built the wall using a "stressed skin" concept, where the exterior layer could be made of laminated sheets of plywood, or perhaps another type of exterior grade thin material.



In this model, each sheet can be unfolded (using Inventor's sheet metal environment), and that data could be sent to cnc machinery for obtaining the accurate shape prior to lamination. The laminations could then be screwed into tall saw-toothed shaped shims, which would also be processed by cnc machinery. Screws would probably be required due to expansion/contraction.
Obviously this wall would need a higher frequency of locations for screwing the laminations onto the shims, I only modeled a few to be representational, and they appear as solid pieces, in reality they would probably come in doubles, enabling pre-assembly within a shop environment for every other row of laminations, making installation on site simpler.



I modeled this as a rainscreen type of wall assembly, making the shim area the first line of defense against the elements. Behind this would be the actual building envelope, which I'd like to model in detail later on.

Very Cool.