The 70 Degree Lamp was designed as a project for Design for Manufacturing, a class which taught me the most ideal and efficient way to design my products to be mass produced. The prompt was to create a lamp only using one piece of sheet metal, and o
       
     
I went through the process of rapid idea generation to figure out the shape and CAD modeled and used the sheet metal function to make sure the design would work. I then took my 2D design for the sheet and imported it into Rhino so I could plasma cut
       
     
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The 70 Degree Lamp was designed as a project for Design for Manufacturing, a class which taught me the most ideal and efficient way to design my products to be mass produced. The prompt was to create a lamp only using one piece of sheet metal, and o
       
     
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The 70 Degree Lamp was designed as a project for Design for Manufacturing, a class which taught me the most ideal and efficient way to design my products to be mass produced. The prompt was to create a lamp only using one piece of sheet metal, and one run on the plasma cutter. This meant that the shape of the lamp completely depended on how the border of the sheet metal was cut, and how the different areas of the sheet were folded.

I went through the process of rapid idea generation to figure out the shape and CAD modeled and used the sheet metal function to make sure the design would work. I then took my 2D design for the sheet and imported it into Rhino so I could plasma cut
       
     
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I went through the process of rapid idea generation to figure out the shape and CAD modeled and used the sheet metal function to make sure the design would work. I then took my 2D design for the sheet and imported it into Rhino so I could plasma cut my sheet metal to the correct shape. I then used a series of folding sheet metal tools to bend it into its final shape.

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