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Ask HN: Do you make physical prototypes? Of What?
I am very visual and prototypes help me design things. For largeish projects I have been having trouble finding material; most recently to model a small building and roof redesign.
I was thinking about how great it would be to have home Depot materials at 1/8 scale but have only found pretty expensive balsa wood at local craft stores.
Is there a Lego type product that is meant to be representative of real world materials?
- joezydeco 9y agoI know a good number of designers that will print out 2D elevations of their design (at scale), then spray-tack* it to 1/8" or 1/4" foam core. Use an exacto knife to cut the shapes out of the foamcore, then assemble with glue, small tacks, paper hinges, etc. * http://www.homedepot.com/p/3M-Super-77-16-75-fl-oz-Multi-Purpose-Spray-Adhesive-77-24/100067550 http://www.homedepot.com/p/3M-Super-77-16-75-fl-oz-Multi-Pur...
- wand3r 9y agoYou don't have a pic or link to a design by any chance? Curious what they built and how it came out
- wand3r 9y agoI'm curious if anyone would actually be interested in 1/8 scale: - plywood - 2x4s and 1x3s - currogated metal - PVC Piping - roofing material - garage door & track I am thinking about biting the bullet and buying materials and milling my own as well as experimenting pouring concrete in small amounts and maybe making a drywall type material. Idk if other people would even want this, or similar stuff; but it's like $100 for some lousy balsa wood stuff and for that money; I'd rather cut and mill wood myself w/ calipers for proper scale Edit: I also mean a bulk set to actually make something large. The bulk orders I have seen of full sized material go to a job site are for example; 2x4s arriving as a pallet of 104 pieces of lumber (stack of like 13 8 beams high) which could lay a lot of 16" on center walls. Each piece at AC Moore/hobby lobby is at best about 0.50 so just that is like 50 bucks!
- hector_ka 9y agoYou can use foamcore ,or isolation foam from Home Depot