3D Design

Here you see my illustrator file that I have to make this hot sauce box come to life. The height of the box is going to be 6.25 inches and the width of the box is going to be 1.625 inches. I went with a tabbed box because I had a hard time with the tabbed cube, but after I was able to figure it out on how to properly place the tabs and make sure the measurements are correct, I felt confident in making a tabbed box. What I needed to assure myself was that the lid on top and the base for the box were 1/8 of an inch smaller because that way I knew for a fact that they would fit perfectly and tight.

I had many ideas as to how I wanted to go about this project. I went through many designs/sketches  that I knew were going to work but the math behind those sketches were a little complicated to do with little material that I needed to work with. So I decided to go with a simple approach that would look sophisticated and elegant. The design you see has the measurements based off of the Cholula's hot sauce's diameter and height. The project here is to create a hot sauce box that will make this hot sauce look like it is worth $5 milliion dollars. I went through a lot of paper, pencil lead, and eraser to get the right design to work with the measurements that I needed for this box.

This week we started to make our wooden cubes. In this process we have to make sure that the measurements that we have in our files are very accurate because if we make a cut with a laser we can not undo a cut with wood if the cut has already been made. We are using burch wood as our material to make these cubes and we will be using a laser cutter machine to get the percise cuts we need to put all of this together. Before we can use the laser cutter we needed to create our layout using Adobe Illustrator. During this time we have to make sure that the measurements were percise and to be able to do that we need to have a grid and checked off that the snap to grid option was on. Therefore, if we were to make a mistake then we are able to go back and check what went wrong when we tried to put the cube together. I went through two sets of cubes before I got it right. The first cube that you see was the easiest to create and put together because it did not have any tabs that needed to line...

For this week we are approaching this next assignment with a different material. This time we are going to be using wood. Before we can jump into the design and features of the box we need to make sure we know how to go about laying out the box. As you can see we are making a box that is       3"X 3"X 3". One box will have no tabs and the other will. The goal here is to make a box that can hold itself with adhesive and have a lid on it. The other one will not have adhesive but through the use of tabs that are on the squares when its all cut out all that is needed to be done is match the corresponding squares to one another and the tabs are what are going to keep the cube in shape.