Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these decisions in the order they should be taken.
- Locate the approximate centre of mass
- Decide what the armature must carry and how it comes out
- Decide the form and where its masses sit
- Build
- Decide the base and check the vertical falls inside it
Hints
- The mass distribution has to be known before the base can be sized.
- Building comes last.
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- Decide the form and where its masses sit
- Locate the approximate centre of mass
- Decide the base and check the vertical falls inside it
- Decide what the armature must carry and how it comes out
- Build
Why
Taking them in this order is the point of the lesson. A form settled first and supported afterwards can turn out to have no honest support at all, and the decisions constrain each other, which is why they belong together at the start.
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