Captains log - Week 17

     I made a lot of progress this week. I took the MAX file home so that I could work on the cube on a better computer, and it was a great idea. This week I finished the inner mechanism completely, and it should function properly once it's printed. I also made a lot of progress on the center edge piece. I'm having some normals issues with the piece, but it's slowly getting better. The only other thing i'm having an issue with is that some pieces may not have mesh smooth because it creates issues. I think I should be ready to print by Monday or Tuesday of this upcoming week. Unfortunately, I have no pictures to show because the file is no longer here with me.


                                      This has been a PSA,
                                                                         Captain out

Captains log - Week 16

       This week was very successful for the modeling of my cube. I got the design for the inner mechanism totally worked out, and it works! I did a test print of the model, and it spins correctly, and is strong enough to work. Another plus side is that it fits with the rest of my pieces

All that's left for me to do is add 5 more pegs for the inner mechanism, and then i'm ready to print. That won't take long because all I need to do is copy and paste the one I already have 5 more times and then center them to where they need to be.
 

                                      This has been a PSA,
                                                                         Captain out

Captains log - Week 15

This week I attempted to make the inner mechanism to my cube. It was most definitely a failed attempt because I don't know how to model it, and I don't really know what the interior of the inner part looks like because I can't take that part apart. I know I have to use cylinders, and I have to make them lock together and spin, but I don't really know how to do that. Hopefully i'll be able to figure something out at my house because these school computers are getting really hard to work with. Anyways, that's really it for this week.

                          This has been a PSA,
                                                           Captain out

Captains log - Week 14

       This week was kind of a failure. I tried to print my center edge piece, and it came out horribly and didn't even work. I don't know what it is with my models, but there are always issues with the poly's and normals that I don't know how to fix, and I think that's why the print came out funky. I would post a picture of the print, but there's no sense in uploading a picture of a poorly shaped rectangle. I also started working on the actual center piece, but I haven't gotten that far on it yet. Considering we've only had 3 work days this week, not much has gotten one.
Here's a picture of what I've done on the piece so far:

So yea, that's basically the only thing worth showing.

 
                          This has been a PSA,
                                                           Captain out

Captains log - Week 13

       Okay, so this week has been huge in terms of progress on my cube. I fixed all of the measurement issues I was having with my center edge piece, and I now know that it will work perfectly in my cube so long that it prints correctly. There may be some poly or normal issues, so i'll have to see about that. But here's a picture of the basically finished center edge piece:

I still have to boolean one side of the piece, but for the most part it's finished. I also know that it fits together nicely with the corner pieces, and I made somewhat of a demo Rubiks Cube to prove that.
Here's some pictures of that:

So yea, that's basically as far as I have gotten so far.

                           This has been a PSA,
                                                           Captain out

Captains log - Week 12

       This post is also late because I was at a college seminar thing during my animating time on Friday of last week, and I didn't even realize I was supposed to post that day until just now. So on week 12 I made huge progress on the center edge piece of my cube. I actually thought that I finished it, but after I did some testing, I realized that I made some issues with my measurements so the piece was actually un-proportional  to the corner piece I already have completed. Due to this mistake, I had to go re-measure the pieces on my real cube to get the correct measurements. I didn't have enough time to put that into action though, but the corrections will be seen on the Week 13 blog.

                         This has been a PSA,
                                                           Captain out

Captains log - Week 11

       This weeks post is a little late because my computer was not working on the friday that this was supposed to be posted on, and there were no other open computers to post from. This post may also be slightly shorter because my space bar is only working 30% of the time, which is really annoying and makes me not want to type. Anyways, I don't particularly remember where I was on my project during this week. The past 3 weeks have basically been a big blur of trying to accomplish the same goal. I'm pretty sure I was starting to animate my center edge piece by the end of this week. I'll just post finished product pictures of the piece in my week 13 post.

                      This has been a PSA,
                                                           Captain out