Sweet Onion Creations

Well, it’s been an amazing week around here at Sweet Onion headquarters…

On Monday we learned we were selected as StartupNation’s Greenest Startup Business. We originally saw the contest back in late September in the small business section of the New York Times. Since it was free to register, we jotted a few notes about our use of Green Tags for all projects, recycling all our raw material waste, reusing packaging material, etc.

We figured the competition would be pretty stiff and it was. We are very humbled to win such an award and realize it raises the bar that much more to be sure to continue to work on minimizing our environmental impact.

A big thank you to our clients who have been supportive of our ideas from the get-go. We hope to continue to provide the tools that make it easy to communicate your visions…in the least harmful manner possible.

Here is the link from MSN.com, in case you’re interested. Also, the Wall Street Journal did a short blog entry as well.

Mmmm…Pancakes and 3D Printing

Well, we probably won’t be starring in any Hollywood movies but we do have a movie up and loaded on our website and at YouTube that walks you through the basics of taking CAD files and making architecture models. The example used is from the recent model we built for the Yellowstone Club.

In the 4 minutes and 14 seconds you too can see:

1. The computer work and the model as it exists on the screen

2. How 3D printing technology “slices” up a model

3. The raw materials used in production

4. Recycling process

5. A few examples of the final products

Thanks in advance for watching and please call if you’re an agent living in LA!

We have a case study up on our website about the recent Yellowstone Club architecture model we built for Jonathan L. Foote & Associates for their design review board meeting this summer up in Big Sky, Montana. The document is available as a free download in PDF format and goes through the details of how the model was built from scratch off of blueprints. If you’re curious how the model that is pictured on our home page was constructed, we hope this document will do a good job of explaining the process:

Specifically:
1. The translation from 2D drawings to a 3D representation
2. The approval process for different building materials
3. Online tools used for managing communication
4. Representing topography and the building envelope at 1/8″ = 1′ scale

Note: A big thank you to JLF & Associates for giving us the chance to build a model like this. It was a challenging project but seeing what the technology and the CAD programs could do together was pretty fun.