3D Printed Jewellery Business: Progression

 

We have a School Market Day approaching in October 2025.    As part of the process our students have spent time designing and using our technology to create a range of products.   As detailed previous Market Days can be viewed here.

One of our business ideas was to use Tinkercad to create original 3D Designs which they then could 3D Print.

In the instance shown left the students from our junior school had a discovery time, where they were creating a range of beads and forming a bracelet.  We were able to use the lettering shown left and combine it with the objects and the material that was supplied.

The pink lettering shown in both examples are our students using their 3D Printed Glow-in-the-dark filament.   This provided beads with an additional feature in that it could glow in the dark.

The feedback from the students, in this case junior students (new entrance who are five years old) helped our business students think about design options and how they might improve their product.   They wanted to look at including their own versions of the art blocks (the flowers shown left) that fill out some of the design.   After seeing the examples they again used the scribble option from Tinkercad to create their own take and examples.   These were able to be done quickly and independently by the students concerned.

As shown in the bottom left photograph.   The students also recognised that they could pass on their creations to other students in the classroom who could help with the shapes and the details.  Not all of the designs were able to translate well to printing.

We opted to print in two different colours, using a mixture of red and blue PLA to see which would stand out more.   Some of the designs shown left could be easily recognised, others require more of an interpretation.   The default settings for the printing mean that we are using a regular nozzle etc - but realistically increasing the fine details would not translate to a better print.