アダプトタワー
From Sakanaction's mini album "Adapt", released on March 30th 2022 along with their online live of the same name which was streamed in November 20th and 21st 2021 was released during the covid lock down. The album's theme is about adapting to the lock down, along with announcing its sequel album "Apply", which as of writing this have not been released yet.
The online live and the Budokan live that happened once lockdown restrictions are lifted featured this giant 4 story tall building called the Adapt Tower.
From the live report article: https://sakanaction.jp/feature/uotami_articles_07
The fan club exclusive live blu-ray set included a papercraft model of the adapt tower, however I want an actual model of the adapt tower. Hence with the normal limited edition blu-ray book including blueprints of the adapt tower, I modelled one from scratch using TinkerCAD and printed it.
CAD Design
The limited edition Adapt online live blu-ray set comes with a production booklet, with information such as the online live techrider to the most important thing for this project: blueprints.
While the overall dimensions are given, I had difficulty finding dimensions for certain areas, especially the angles for the floors, so I made an estimate by measuring the angle in the book with a protractor. I made the measurements 1:100 scale.
One issue with the dimension accuracy is while the height and width are correct, the length ended up being slightly longer. But with the limitations of Tinkercad and the difficulty in adjusting angled structures I left it as it is. Overall the design looks accurate to the online live.
The next step is bringing it to the real world.
Fabrication
Something something I got access to a 3D printer, but printing the structure as it is would lead to alot of support structures, which are annoying to remove and can damage the parts if not removed properly, so I decided to seperate the structures to different parts to reduce the need of supports.
I slowly merged the structure floor by floor, and separating them into simple parts. I also had to make sure they are aligned properly to make sure it can be constructed properly.
Eventually I organised the separated parts and tried reconstructing it. In total there are 7 parts in total. There are no connecting stubs to ensure they are in the right place as it was troublesome to add them, so I to make sure each part has something I can reference to so that it can align with each other. And then I'll use super glue to fix everything together. Below shows its final form and the reconstruction.
Time skip to the 3D printing and assembly, here are the pictures of the final print.
While I did add tolerances to the parts that are suppose to slot into each other, some parts didn't fit properly so I had to sand it down. The print thickness was not alot too so when taking photos you could see the support inside the prints.
