3D Printed Tags for Roses in Garden

Challenge: To produce tags suitable for the garden to identify roses when planted.   

Background: The 3D Print was identified as the best resource to produce this as it would allow the production of something that was durable and would not suffer from weathering.   This student was well versed in 3D Printing having produced in recent years several key prints that were featured on this blog.   Some of these have been complex designs of the highest level of student work.   If anything this was something that the student was more than capable of doing and could have added to it in terms of its complexity.    

Degree of Difficulty: Low - the student was capable producing detailed complex design, this was something easily within her skillset.    Of note the top of the three designs was printed incorrectly, it was intended to have lettering on it, but the student had not grouped the design correctly so it came out as a blank print, however the student was able to convince the teacher that they felt the need for an option to have a 'blank' label which could be written on using permanent maker.   The student thought that it would also be possible that this would allow the label to be written on the tag and then have the tag adjusted as the rose was going.

Size: 30mm by 120mm.   The lettering for the naming on the two plates raised 20mm from the plate.

Timeframe: Four hours for the duration of the print of three lables.

What we would do differently: This print, while in theory would work in the short term is questionable in the long term.   The rose plant that these were designed for are expected to grow significantly as with that expectation of growth the labels would not be able to constrain the base of the plant.   If  there is one specific issue that could be addressed it would be the label either needs to be temporary in place or would be adjustable so that it could be expanded or removed (in the worst case scenario it would 'ring' the rose when the plant was growing and the label had not been removed).   This concept was something the student was able to achieve successfully however with completion of the project it was felt that additional design features could be added.