Advent should be a quiet time where you devote yourself to contemplative things, for example constructing a LUT or saving the world. Since the latter has already been done, I turn with joy to the first task.

LUT up to Level 100

LUT up to Level 100

Tower of Babel. Slowly the thing gets complicated and we didn't even scratch the surface. The layers in Rhino are multiplying unrestrainedly, and the render times are also getting more comfortable.

Actually, I had hoped that the segment structure at level 80 would make for more comfortable times, which of course isn't the case. The changes from floor to floor are hardly noticeable, but significant enough that you have to redesign each level. The outer frame beams, for example, are getting thinner and thinner to the top - a trick that the ancient Greeks used to make buildings appear taller. NASA probably didn't consider aesthetics that important, but rather the center of gravity of the LUT, which naturally moves downwards due to the weight savings on top. There are also other surprises again and again - have you noticed, for example, that the one cross beam of level 80 (2nd from above) is a box, and not an H-profile like all the other?

Cable tray openings

Cable tray openings

As we know, the LUT is interspersed by countless structures from bottom to top, here we see the openings for the 22 cable ducts, which meander artfully upwards.

Column connection LUT Level 30

LUT and MLP

But the view from a distance shows that the thing is still quite naked. What is striving upwards on the front side of the right hand across all segments is the mounting bracket for the swing arms. On the left are the buffers, which stop the swing of the arm. The arms swing inwards at the start to clear the way to the moon.

LUT, MLP and Crawler

LUT, MLP and Crawler

And so that the processor cores don't forget what work is, we put the LUT virtually on the crawler again. The blessed among you who have already seen the crawler model in its corporeality can already get an idea of the dimensions of the LUT model. So use the time and expand your living space. You will need it ;)