Ongoing Projects: December 2022

 

Left - A basic badge design.   Its been covered so much on this blog we won't repeat the details again although in the past we've covered the simplicity of these designs from examples through to step by step tutorial videos.

This student is using these as Christmas tags for a family member, with the master complete its simply a matter of duplicating the same design and printing them off.  This design is 40mm wide, 20mm high and is 5mm thick.  The print time for this design is extremely short, forty minutes and works well given the size and the combination with the Snapmaker printer, wouldn't recommend doing this with an older machine, potentially you would look at doing a class set as an introductory task it wouldn't take long and you'd be able to mass produce them in quick succession.

Original Christmas Designs - are a focus for a number of students.   We have been challenging the students to complete these so they are unique (hence if you view the 'tree' to the left you can see that it is not balanced as one might expect with the sides), asking the students to create something that is personalised and unique.   The designs have varied but again the final print tends to be something that is not too large and hence has a realistic printing time.

The tree shown left is 70mm high is 45mm wide and 10mm thick.  The student has already been re-working these dimensions, they have not been satisfied with the results.   They have reduced the thickness of the design opting for a 5mm print and the lettering has been increased so that it will be more obvious with the final design.   The student is happy with the imbalance created and shown by the print as a result of which they have left that in the design to make it unique.

A current printing time of three hours has been reduced as result.

This is another present design - that is intended to accomplish the goal of creating a present label but in this case making the design 3D printed, with the intention of it to be later spray painted.

The student has worked on this with minimal experience with Tinkercad and this is their first individual, independent print,  They have forgotten to have an insert of a hole into the design to allow someone to easily insert ribbon into the design to attach it.   They also made it only 3mm thick and while this means that it works (just) it also is extremely thin, while it is not likely to break unless pressure is applied it could be broken easily.   The design measured 70mm across and was 60mm high as noted the thickness was only 3mm which needs to be addressed.

Left - the original Tinsel design.  We have seen many versions of this print since it was first created.   The student simply used three sphere shapes, a ring (which then was joined to the main design).  To get the affect of having tinsel on the design the student used the 'scribble' command.  All of these are available via Tinkercad.   The total design time took under three minutes, independently, the print which was 70mm across, 60mm high and was 10mm thick.  This was a combination that worked perfectly and has inspired a range of variations and copies from other students who have subsequently created their own versions.