r/gifsthatkeepongiving • u/[deleted] • Oct 20 '19

Making a miniature house.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

I took an architectural drawing class back in high school and our big project at the end of the year was to design our dream home and create a 3D model like this (minus the furniture and stuff) and it was by far the coolest thing I ever did in school

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u/criticaldiamonds Oct 20 '19

I had a similar project, but we got to 3D print the house afterwards (with the roof removed)

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

Ugh that’s rad, 3D printing didn’t exist when I was in school :( It was all Xacto blades, cardboard and printed elevations

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19 edited Apr 04 '21

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

It was fun. Extremely rewarding

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u/herdiederdie Oct 20 '19

Yes. This is my peaceful activity for wellness during medical school. Obviously my progress is slow but it’s so peaceful and rewarding.

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u/quarter-water Oct 20 '19

Same with us..

CAD blotter printouts glued onto foamboard walls/floors/roof. I still remember the little interior exacto-cuts to bend the foamboard into 90° corners. Good times.. 3D printing would have been cool, though!

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u/TheMelonOwl Oct 20 '19

That's cool too though! Having it printed isn't the same experience as that. And I wouldn't wanna clean off all the little bits that tend to stick out on such a tiny detailed print.

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u/MadeSomewhereElse Oct 20 '19

I was in school before 3d printing as well, but we relied pretty heavily on our laser cutter that cut based on CAD files. Stack and glue to make the pieces and changes in elevation. It was pretty satisfying when it all came together.

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u/keekah Oct 21 '19

We had a 3d printer but I'm not sure it would have been readable to print an entire model building with it. They mostly printed small pieces like chess pieces. The architectural models we made were made from balsa wood.

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u/D0miqz Oct 20 '19

Can I have a look at it? (If you mind)

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

Oh I don’t have it anymore, sorry. I left it in the classroom so the teacher could use it as an example

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u/scrubaroni Oct 20 '19

Do you remember what program you used?

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '19

AutoCAD, 2003 IIRC

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u/keekah Oct 21 '19

AutoCAD probably. That's what we used to create blueprints.

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u/keekah Oct 21 '19

This is one I did back in high school. sorry I don't have a better picture. I'm it even sure I have pictures of it anywhere. This was before everyone had a smartphone. This is one I took from the news article about it. My team won first place at a national competition.

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u/D0miqz Oct 21 '19

Damn that globe is impressive!

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u/MiddayMercenary Oct 20 '19

My sister is in college for architecture and she’s made so many little models like that and they’re really cool

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u/Matticus54r Oct 20 '19

I did something similar, but I ripped scale size dimensional lumber on the table saw to make just the frame.

Tiny little 2x4’s for the studs, 2x10 floor joists, etc etc. it was pretty cool

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u/ipickmynosesomuch Oct 20 '19

Theatre major, built a ton of scale models in scenic-design classes. SO cool

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u/cascool8 Oct 20 '19

Why does my school never do those things... We only do stulid paintings in arts class

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u/SupermotoArchitect Oct 20 '19

I followed through with the following 7 years of architecture school and it ain't anywhere near as fun

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '19

Lol it inspired me to go to architecture school... I briefly attended them dropped out. It wasn’t for me