3D Printed Furniture Challenge: What Needs to be Addressed

 

Challenge: To produce a realistic workable piece of furniture for a Dolls House.

Background: As detailed previously this has been an excellent project to develop our students design skills.  Having the physical location for the objects in the classroom and having object's that students have a first hand knowledge of.

We also started the process of using some of the Tinkercad design templates and having some students combine these objects with objects that they have created themselves.

Shown top left is the original design, the TV taken from the main interface (searched) with a cabinet that was then designed by a Y3 student.    The student was working for the first time and used the basic shapes which then had shapes removed.   

The design was then printed - however a significant flaw in the design was detected.    The join between the TV and the cabinet did not survive some basic stress testing.

As we have been identifying for some time the purpose of this project is to produce workable pieces that will be high use items for creative play in the junior school.   This was then an opportunity to show something to the students that looks correct but would work only in the context of being static and not feasible for the brief, as we have discovered with some of the initial furniture design which needed to have the legs addressed.