Making Blueprints for the Wings of the CN Tower

The goals for this week was to make the wings of the CN Tower, which is the hardest part to make because of the wing's curve/bulge. The challenges for making these wings was making the radius part of the CN Tower's wings.

Setting the radius of the Wings

After scaling down the measurements from the actual CN Tower, we found the radius to be about 8-9 feet. So we used a 8-9 ethernet cable to draw the wings by stretching it out and moving it in a circular motion on the piece of wood where the wings were to be constructed. Stretching out the ethernet cable and moving it in circular motion was my role, Michael.

Making Measurements of the Wings

We were able to draw an accurate curve of the CN Tower, and put it up against the shaft to make sure it looked correct. At this point, we had only drawn one wing on one side of the wood. The wing's peak is .17 inches and the base is 1.75 inches. Drawing the part of the wing was Steven's role.

Making a Wing from Paper

Instead of using the ethernet cable to continually draw the other wings, we found a easier method which was to just make a wing out of paper and start tracing three wings on the wood which was Yuan's role.

Starting to trace the wings for the wood

Some of the drawing may be inaccurate due to inaccurate tracing. The other side of the wood's drawings may also not correlate with the current side being worked on. The solution to this was to use the paper as a straightedge and fold it on both sides to see if the wings can correlate with each other.

Completed Drawings of the bridge

These are the 3 completed drawings of the wings for the CN Tower. We tried to use a small handsaw in order to cut the wings out but it was proved to be difficult so going to the wood shop will be a better method to make precise cuts. If we used a regular jigsaw, the cuts could be inaccurate, especially if cutting the radius part of the wings. Island's working on the Visual Analysis model and still watching tutorials to learn more about the program.