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4.510 Digital Design Fabrication
As taught in:
Fall 2008
Level:
Graduate
Instructors:
Prof. Lawrence Sass
Course Features
Course Highlights
Course Description
In one of the assignments, students are asked to design and build a plywood chair using no screws or other attachments. (Image courtesy of an anonymous 4.510 student; please see assignment 3 in the projects section.)
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Selected lecture notes
Projects and Examples
Assignments (no solutions)
Course Highlights
This course features examples of student work in the
projects
section.
Course Description
This course will guide graduate students through the process of using rapid prototyping and CAD/CAM devices in a studio environment. The class has a theoretical focus on machine use within the process of design. Each student is expected to have completed one graduate level of design computing with a full understanding of solid modeling in CAD. Students are also expected to have completed at least one graduate design studio.
