Meet Justice Morris
I learn by
making.
I’m Justice. I’m a structural engineer, and I’m growing Pyrite Printing out of my garage.
There are 3D printers scattered throughout the house. I love using them to work through complex problems in three dimensions.
My wife and two young children are a big part of why I started. I’m doing my best to take care of them and make something useful for the PEMB community.
Tremonton, Utah · Still figuring things out by making them.
How it began
A problem
I understood.
A sales engineer at Nucor asked me to make a larger model for his presentations. The generic structural model he’d been using was too small for everyone to see the movement clearly, and it wasn’t PEMB-specific.
I’d struggled to picture some of those concepts myself. A model of a pre-engineered metal building felt like a way to make them more visible and easier to understand.
Learning through the process
The making was
part of the learning.
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Make.
I spent over 200 hours designing, printing and prototyping, and hundreds of dollars on filament.
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Try.
Over several months, I kept refining the model with feedback from sales engineers.
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Understand.
Even though I’d made it, playing with the model helped me understand torsion racking—and how tying in the end walls helps with torsion racking.
Seeing the frame move gave me my own aha moments. I wanted other people to have that experience, too.