Challenge: Student wanted to combine the lettering created with a 3D Printer with the use of the school laser cutter with the goal of producing something as a gift for Chirstmas.Background: Student has shown excellence in use of 3D Printing in the Classroom. While they are extremely gifted with design we have been trying to encourage to them to think about combining technologies and ideas. In this case the student created the lettering first, and then used the school laser cutter to cut into MDF to create the background image. The image came from a simple online search and took approximatley ten minutes to laser cut. The lettering was created using Tinkercad from the main interface. The 'Monty' lettering shown with the above photograph was 15mm high and measured 60mm across - taking forty minutes to print. It was then superglued to the base.
Left: Further repeating the process the student added a coat of basic gold paint to the same process, the base was wood with MDF again and the lettering was a simple case of creating a basic Tinkercad Font design with lettering which were 20mm high and 40mm across.
The laser cut aspect of the design took ten minutes for the cutting, the design itself was freely available online.
Left: Another similar design instead featuring a rabbit. Again a similar process to the other designs, the student is using freely available designs or outlines of creatures (in this case the rabbit) and then painting it with a gold backing colour. The student has gone with a 'Christmas Red' PLA to contrast with the 'gold paint' producing the red to stand out and for effect.
For the printing part of the name the default settings that you will be familar with on this blog apply.
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