Planning Plausible Paper Prototypes: Post Part P-two

...In my everlasting brilliance, I thought it would be a great idea to come up with five Rhino models, unfold them, choose two, tab those, print them, and create their paper counterparts the night before they were due... great idea, am I right? Oh, and to add to that, forgetting your cutting mat and tools in your locker at school just adds a beautiful spice to that recipe for certain disaster...

....but disaster is always somewhat enjoyable...

Anyways, I chose two of my cup designs (or perhaps designed them to be printed.... who knows?) from the last blog post to model in card stock.

 
(Chalice design number 1, unfolded, tabbed and ready to print)

(Too many tabs...)

 

(Please excuse the crappy pictures; it was quite late at night and the desk lamp I had sucked...)

I printed them onto card stock with little trouble (I managed not to jam the printer, yay...) and started cutting... and cutting... and cutting...

An unmeasured amount of time later of seemingly unending cutting, scoring, folding, and gluing, tah-dah,a chalice(ish) shape:

 

The foot portion had to be printed on a separate sheet of paper, as it was modeled separately and didn't fit on the letter-sized paper I was printing on, and the join between the two components is not the best. It keeps falling off.... yay... hmm... perhaps slits would fix that issue.... we shall see...

For the second paper model, I chose the cut-out, simple cup shape...

 

(I had modeled a simple cup shape on Rhino, unfolded it, then added the design to one face. That was then rotated around the base shape and the tabs added.)

(Enter the brand-new, revolutionary cutting board design: the back of a poor, old notebook)

(Black: original tab length- Red: new tab length)

As I was cutting out the pattern I realized that I had forgotten to account for the width of the cut-out designs on the face of the cup when measuring out the tabs, and one they were cut and folded, they would overlap the edge of the design. A quick, eyeballed straight cut fixed that issue....

 

 (I'm liking that shadow though...)

After about half an hour of cutting, and about the same of folding and gluing, the second cup begins to take shape, held together  by the power of paperclips while the glue takes its sweet time to dry... It was fairly easy to glue the sides together though, as the hollow form had adequate room to hold the pieces together.

But tah-dah, paper cup prototypes... not bad for a last minute effort, I'm quite pleased with how they turned out (or perhaps that was the three hours of sleep talking...). I only wish they were a bit larger, though I decided to print the templates at home and my printer only takes letter/legal sized paper. I think they second cup design would look interesting as a pierced metal object, and perhaps some day in the future I will try it, we shall see... The stem connection of the chalice design needs work and a better was to connect the two pieces, and I'll try to resolve that issue...

... after some sleep, perhaps...