3D Printed Name Design

Challenge: For a student with minimal experience to produce a customised name.

Background: This student had limited experience with 3D Printing and design although was in a class with a number of experts.  She wanted to design something that was simple, practical and could be used as an individualised personal gift.  To come up with the idea she wanted to use the letter tool from Tinkercad (the basic interface).

This was a simple design created by the student in a very short time frame - she did require some basic assistance from another student, which was related to the best way to link the letters, which has a chain effect but this was minimal.

Size: The letter is 20mm wide, 40mm tall and 5mm thick.  This allows the lettering to be posed and stand on its own.   Obviously the person had a name with three letters so the size was relative.

Timeframe: 55 minutes to complete the print

What we would do differently/next step for the students - nothing this was the novelty the student was looking for.

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