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The first iteration of the component was created in Revit. At the time little was understood about the realistic functioning of a three-dimensional joint, which would be used in multiple connections within the component. Initially, the design specified ball bearing joints. Once fabrication began, the ball-and-socket joint was discovered and was used to control the motion of the parallelograms. The connections from the diamond to the scissors and the parallelograms was also simplified during fabrication with the use of simple, adjustable hardware.