so far though, when it comes to the practical aspect of this idea, it.hasn't gone well.

and therefore bring it into something like model builder, fix it up, and convert it to and. so a while ago i figured out that you could save a pepakura file as an obj. essentially, i don't really know how different programs process 3D models. took an introductory course at school, hated most of it, kinda liked sculptris. We propose Shape Structuralizer (SS), an interactive design support system that repurposes surface models into structural constructions using rods and custom 3D-printed joints.Ĭurrent Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools lack proper support for guiding novice users towards designs ready for fabrication.Okay, so to preface this.i know almost nothing about 3D modelling. Shape Structuralizer embeds a recommendation system that computationally supports the user during design ideation by providing design suggestions on local refinements of the design. This strategy enables novice users to choose designs that both satisfy stress constraints as well as their personal design intent. The interactive guidance enables users to repurpose existing surface mesh models, analyze them in-situ for stress and displacement constraints, add movable joints to increase functionality, and attach a customized appearance. This also empowers novices to fabricate even complex constructs while ensuring structural soundness. We validate the Shape Structuralizer tool with a qualitative user study where we observed that even novice users were able to generate a large number of structurally safe designs for fabrication.īlossom is an open-source social robotics platform responding to three challenges in human-robot interaction (HRI) research: (1) Designing, manufacturing, and programming social robots requires a high level of technical knowledge (2) social robot designs are fixed in appearance and movement capabilities, making them hard to adapt to a specific application and (3) the use of rigid mechanisms and hard outer shells limits the robots’ expressive capabilities. Addressing these challenges, Blossom aims at three design objectives: accessibility, flexibility, and expressiveness. The robot’s mechanism can be quickly assembled and partially extended by end-users.

Pepakura to 3d print