Academic · SCAD Industrial design

Transportation Diorama: Futuristic Car + Display Stand

A six-wheel concept car designed in Rhino for 3D printing, shown as the physical piece on its road plate.

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Industrial design Rhino 3D printing Prototyping

Role

Design and 3D modelling

Course

FOUN 110, Design Thinking and Process, SCAD Atlanta

Date

Oct 2025

Tools

Rhino, 3D printing

01

Brief

Project 2 of FOUN 110 (instructor Kent Knowles, SCAD Atlanta, October 2025) was a transportation diorama: a vehicle and the base it sits on. I worked from concept-car references and made two families of sketches, one with curved forms and one with square forms. Next to the car I sketched the stand, a road plate.

Side-view sketch. Wedge shape, large wheel pods.
Sketch of the stand: a road plate with raised blocks, noted for foam or wood.
Early clay render of the body on a dark background.

02

Process: Rhino for 3D printing

My own note in the process book says it: "Finally designing in 3D to 3D print with Rhino." So I split the car into a kit of parts. Body shell, chassis, six tyres, six rim hubs, a base plate and separate red accent strips. The body carries six vent holes and a slot, and the car runs on three axles with a diffuser-style underbody.

Rhino render, rear three-quarter.
Rhino render from above. Six vent holes in the body.
The part kit in Rhino: base plate, chassis, tyres, rim hubs and body shell.

03

Outcome

The printed car sits on a painted road plate with black lane stripes. The underside shot shows the chassis with its layered surface and six black tyres. The part-kit render and the physical car are the same design, only one is on screen and the other is on the table. A short AI-animated clip puts the design in a city.

Printed car from behind, with red light strip and diffuser.
Low side view. Three axles on the road plate.
Underside: chassis and six tyres.
AI-animated from my design: the car drives through a futuristic city. Made with Google Veo; the city is not part of my project.

04

What this shows

Part split for fabrication: deciding where one object becomes several, so each piece can be made and then put together. It also shows the full path from sketch to CAD to a physical model. Tolerances and fits are not documented here.