Parametric Modeling
This week, I’m going to change the length and width of the table I designed last week into three different sizes. I tried a lot of different ways to change the size. But at first, I always failed.I tried to use “change parameter” tool to change the size, but I cannot change the length and width. The only thing I can change is the depth. So, I need to change another way.
I’m going to make it large, medium and small, in three sizes. The large one is 1/3 times the medium one. And the medium one is 1/3 times the small one. I opened the file on my old desk, looked up the “history”, looked at the size of each piece, and figured out how much I should change. I found that if the plate is made by “press pull”, it will automatically become larger or smaller.
I think the smallest table can be used by children. Not too high, not too big. The children can read books and play with toys on that table. The middle table can be used for our study. The largest table can be used as a dining table.
Another problem I had was that I didn’t know how to put the three finished desks in the same file. I have no way to copy to the same file. The solution I finally found was to save all three tables’ files to three STL files, open a new file, and use the insert function to put all three tables together.
