Assignment 1: Make these shapes

 Okay I hate doing stuff at the last minute but when I tried to get down to business on this last Monday after my nap it wound up with me researching how to patch my 2012 macbook and load a newer operating system on it and I got carried away and that definitely didn't happen. So here we are. Hopefully now this will be less complicated in the future, but for today I am going to be using Rhino on my roommate Ryan's computer while typing this blog post on my own laptop and I guess... emailing myself the screenshots??

I have now figured out how to take the screenshots on his computer. Now okay. The image is imported. the circle is drawn. Planer mode engaged. Osnaps on mid and center? Now what the heck is a gumball again? Okay it's the direction thing. Gumball is on. Whoops things are moving... going to delete this circle, and make the background picture of what we need to make a different layer...

I've made a different layer. The picture keeps moving. What.

I tried deleting the image and opening layer 1 and putting it back on. It still moves! Even if I go to layer 2 on the side this "Make these shapes!" image keeps moving. I know for a solid FACT this is going to mess with me, but I think I just have to leave it for now.

I am going to go back to my dodgy notes from class now, maybe there's something there. I felt like so many things were going on then though that my notes aren't as complete as I'd want them to be. 

Yup, just checked my notes and they are NOT helpful for this particular thing.

Apparently it's easier to move things if you click back on the arrow, instead of the circle, who knew?

I had a little panic with my circle apparently not wanting to copy, but I'm going to just try and keep calm and read the little instructions over the command box. Nope, tap alt to duplicate seems like a bold faced lie.

Wow, it really loves moving the instruction picture and NOT the circle. It does not want to move that circle at all.

OMG I GOT IT. I selected it and realized I had to click curve haha I totally thought that would just be a curve of the circle and not the whole thing, I'm crazy.  Then I changed my osnaps to mid and cen and I got the thing!!!

This instruction picture is driving me bananas. I am moving it over to the right out of my way and will just move objects over onto it when I am done with them because I am wasting a whole lot of time.

Did the next two double circle things. Feeling hesitantly good!

Changed to dark purple because now it is easier to differentiate what I am doing. It was easy to make the four circles but now I am not sure how to glue them into one object, but I am also unsure if I need to do that right now. Hopefully not?

Okay, after trying a bunch of "merge" type things (which seems wrong because it's not on our list of commands?) I have accidentally done a terrible trim. Also, why can't I select the rectangle as the cutting tool? I feel like that would be optimal, but whatever.

Okay, I got it the second time after selecting everything as a cutting object and turning on apparent intersections. OMG my little circles with an empty square in the middle. It's so beautiful.

I am now feeling GOOD and CONFIDENT with these rectangles. Bam! First one was so easy. I made the second one no problem except wait- why is there these circle things?? What is going on here??? It doesn't seem to be affecting anything so I'll just leave it and hope it goes away? Or that I come across a solution in my travels??

The one with three rectangles I used my osnaps to get that one in the center. The one after was also easy. Squares are so friendly with that little background grid.

Okay, I have finished all the second line! Yay! That was way faster. I guess the end lesson is: if you're not sure and it asks you if you want to select curve, just say yes. Why not?

FFFFFffffwhy does trying to move it make it a terrible mess? I wouldn't have to move it if I could remember either how to glue it into one object (unless that isn't a thing) or lock down the instruction picture.

It's okay though, I highlighted all the bits and moved it from the command line thing not the gumball. Phew. Slow and tedious sometimes but I WILL GET THERE!!

So to get the little circle to not be an automatic wrong size I needed to change the snaps to near. Gotcha. But I messed up my rotate and left the copy out. Whoops.

Making the 4 and 8 circles on the bigger circle with the rotate and copy commands was super easy. Now this circle trim thing is messing me up big time. I put the circle in the middle and i can take the outsides of the little circles off, but the outer circle I have to remove parts of? What the heck. It won't explode or join or anything apparently. There's an intersection there! C'mon!! I mean it's obviously an apparent intersection- it literally goes right through those circles.

Okay I had it for a second, it seemed to recognize that the center of the circles were a different thing, then I took this screenshot of what I was doing that worked for like two of them

BUT NOW IT ISN'T WORKING WAHH time to go fight with the osnaps again

Oh okay. I have figured it out... its because I had to trim a bunch of things on top of each other from all the copying and rotating haha. Yay it's done!

Wanna make things not just on the grid but next to each other like these circles? Leave ortho on, but turn grid snap off.

Doing that arc thing was awful. I swore many times. Just gotta remember: near, then ortho on, then ortho off. 

Trim was easy but this offset?? It only wants to be bigger! and sharp!! i just want a nice little inside offset. So rude. OHH  throughpoint. Ok. Got it. Phew.

After figuring out that offset thing, putting lines through the object and splitting it and joining it was not that evil. The exact shape is not identical but I don't think that necessarily was the point? I feel like I wasted a lot of time in class trying to make my circles exactly the same and the point of this exercise is to be able to follow the commands to make a thing, so I think this will be fine for now.

I thought this circle with little circles coming off of it that looked like a flower would be easy enough to make, and it was, however I can't join the edges? and that is making the offset extra stupid because it only wants to do a small chunk of it at a time. I'm very upset. Unable to join curves? WHY NOT?? Select curve for offset. Okay, I'll select the whole thing! "Cannot use these objects. Removing them from selection" EXCUSE ME I DID NOT GIVE YOU PERMISSION TO REMOVE THEM.

Now I'm joining some curves. Maybe it'll work one at a time. WHY WONT IT JOIN THESE ONES

Oh great, now its lopsided and weird. Undo.

Now I'm finding all these extra lines in between the outline of my little circles. I want to trim them but it isn't seeming to let me. Where did they come from??

I put my osnaps on and it seemed to let me delete and join things.

Wonderful. Now it is saying again "cannot use these objects. removing them from offset"

It seems like some things are joined and some are not, meaning that I probably have to get in there and fight with each little thing until it is one. Great. Though it's saying "curves must be open" like aren't these all similar shapes?

Some person on a forum asked what I thought was a similar question and someone else answered to use the command "_curveboolean" but maybe that joined one or two more but still not all of them.

Tried "offset multiple" and something crazy happened. it also didnt give me the nice little visual, or the throughpoint option. 

Even if I group them, it only lets me offset this one chunk of it I was able to join and it won't let me join the rest! This is so frustrating! Its literally all part of the same object I rotated around! Guess I'll just offset all the stupid little parts individually....

I got so mad when that didnt work that I just mirrored it and flipped it. Now I'll just trim it until it fits I guess,

That didn't work so I just made the object again without the copy and rotate part, just copy with grid snap/ int.

It finally joined thank goodness I was about to pull my hair out. The rest of that line was easy after the battle that was that.

Stars were pretty easy too because I actually did some of that in class! Until I got to the fillet part... which I don't understand why it's not working because I literally did that part in class and I remember actually getting it and being like, wow maybe this isn't the worst thing in the world.

Okay, I have fillet(ed) the outside corners, hopefully I can figure these inside corners out somehow...

Okay, now I have figured out the inside ones. I needed to change the radius to 0.1 to keep it looking like a star and not too much of a crazy fillet.

I made the circles and split them and trimmed them with no problem. I also put the tiny circle on and made the array so fast that I had to undo it because I forgot about taking a picture of just one circle!

The rest was super easy! The proportions aren't the same as the demonstration ones (but I don't think that was the point of the exercise, I can correct them, if they needed though I'm sure)  but they are even within the objects. 

Wow, that was a crazy time and I'm amazed I got it! It was kind of weirdly fun.