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Papercraft and Unfortunate Timing

There is never a good time for a pandemic, and all of the right decisions were made. However, some projects I was passionate about were left uncompleted. I had spent a lot of time on this papercraft project specifically. I was fortunate to have been able to use the laser cutter in our final class before school shutdown. Although I did not get everything printed, I was happy that I would be able to at least finish the basic structure. I was, however, quite wrong. In creating the body of my guitar, I created two separate halves to act as sort of a lid and container. I added structural support as I discovered it needed in my prototype. It was all looking great, until I picked up both halves of my guitar body at the same time. They were facing the same way... In order to unfold the top half in Rhino, I flipped it so I could have it on the same plane as the other body. Due to an oversight on my part, I did not flip it back after unfolding it. Alongside that, I had somehow cut tabs off e

Papercraft Prototype: Structural Tests

I began playing guitar when I was fourteen years old. My love for it was back and forth until I started producing music when I was eighteen. This was around the same time I purchased this guitar. It has since been with me for eight years and gone everywhere I have. I have written and recorded many songs on it, even lived across continents with it by my side. I have always told myself that if the apocaplypse came and I could take one material object with me; this guitar would be that object, without a doubt. It was an easy decision for me to choose this for my papercraft project. I knew it would be challenging, but no other ideas came close to competing with this one. I had to do it. In the end, I was quite pleased with how my model in Rhino turned out. However, the papercraft realm was foreign territory for me. I was not sure what to expect or how it would go. The main focus of my first prototype was to test the strucutal integrity. This played a big part in deciding