Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Week 6-Greenwood

After using Knex over the past week designing and redesigning our bridge, my views have only slightly changed.  The main difference between my post last week and now is that I know that WPBD and Knex are two entirely different tools.  Since Knex requires us to think in 3D, WPBD really is only the first, most basic step in building a bridge.  
When building an actual bridge made of steel instead of Knex, there would be no loose "joints" where the Knex is having issues staying in a rut.  On a real bridge, the connectors are finals.  This just means that Knex allows the group to more accurately create a working bridge model, as opposed to just putting together something that is large, expensive, and ugly.  Hopefully our team can complete this task in the coming weeks, as the module draws to a close.

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