Well well well ...

So I don't have anything fancy to show for it but it was quite a bit of work. I had some fun troubleshooting and learned some pretty good lessons.

We had to practice surface modeling, while keeping papercraft in mind, as well as breaking those models apart. Eventually this process will be used to design an object in Rhino, print it using a laser cutter and then reassemble into into a final physical object but for now we're just getting used to it all.

I have no idea how I ended up here but I decided to try making a well. There was a version before this that I got halfway through and realized I wasn't keeping the IRL aspects of it in mind when I was creating it so I started over.

The rope I imagine being string in the final printed model

The unroll on these cut throughs was particularly odd but it foreshadowed some issues coming up

In this case there was an easy solution. I had no need for the inner loop of faces, highlighted in yellow in the first picture, so I just removed all of that.

But for this one, I needed that interior loop of faces. So taking that apart was odd. I just settled on the interior being a separate piece and I could fasten it all together once it was made. You can see how I did that, and my entire process, in the time-lapse below.

But wait! While doing my renders I thought of another way to try unwrapping the base! If your eagle eyes caught it you'll sed the curves in the picture above I used to split the ring faces into pieces. After cutting it up further I was able to unwrap it in one contiguous piece.