Cat_house

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Software:

Rhino 7, Grasshopper, Slicer for Fusion 360, Adobe Illustrator

Material:

cardboard, plastic(from 3D printer)

Prototyping Phase

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I had a lovely cat who's gone recently, so I want to make a cathouse for her to remember her; so glad to have her in my life for 10 years.

For this design, I want to make a cathouse that provides a nice place for cats EAT, SCRATCH, AND SLEEP, which is a heavenly house to those cute creatures.

I did 6 sketches, and there are 3 sketches that I am most satisfied with.

I picked the first sketch as the final version, which basically contains two parts: the cardboard body part and the 3D printed container part.

Making the Main-body Part Using Rhino

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After deciding the basic shape of the cathouse, I started moving on to the 3D modeling phase. I use loft to create the wavy shape, and use the boolean difference to get the cave. The length is 61 cm; the height is 26 cm.

Modeling the Grass Container

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There will be a container on top of the cathouse to hold the plant(cat grass).

The first picture is the size of the plant that I purchased. So, as for the container that I am going to print, I made the radius 50mm and the height 70mm, and I use Grasshopper to build the model.