Tuesday May 10th

In Class

Reviewing Assignment 5/6

• • Reviewing Assignment 5 (Lara, Ziyu)

  • Reviewing Clay 3D printing (all groups)

  • Questions/ Challenges from Assignment 5/6

  • Check in on Final- REMINDER FINAL PROPOSAL DUE FRIDAY MAY 13th

--Break--

Optimization and Generative Design

• Generative Design and Structural Optimization Overview (slides)

• Getting setup for Fusion 360

• Overview of parametric modeling in Fusion 360 (Tutorial)

After Class

• Comment on at least two student assignments on Instructables

• Complete the reading.

• Post a slide with your reading reflections to the shared google slide deck by 6 PM Wed May 11th.

• Install a free educational version of Autodesk Fusion 360. Instructions here. Be sure to use your ucsb email when signing up.

• Check out the intro to 2D and 3D modeling in Fusion 360 via the Autodesk Academy Lesson here.

• Complete your final project proposal for Friday May 13th and add required materials to spreadsheet

For Next Class

• A practical introduction to performing shape and topology optimization

Reading

Justin Matejka, Michael Glueck, Erin Bradner, Ali Hashemi, Tovi Grossman, and George Fitzmaurice. 2018. Dream Lens: Exploration and Visualization of Large-Scale Generative Design Datasets. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper 369, 1–12. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173943

Dreamlens is motivated by a specific vision of generative design— namely the challenges facing generative designers and the preferences and objectives of different kinds of generative designers (i.e. artists vs engineers). These conceptions directly motivate the feature Dreamlens and the envisioned workflows that designers will rely on when using the system. In your reflection discuss your views on the desirability and utility of the feature sets of the system. What features would you most benefit from? Which seem unnecessary or infeasible? Connect your discussion of the system features to a critical analysis of the original framing of generative designers and generative design challenges presented in the paper.