Week 4

Design Plan:

The print ended up coming out really really good, the only thing is in the next print I want to print out the coat hanger out rather than in one big in piece making it many pieces and assembling it after it is all printed out, this could save hours on the print time and the quality could possibly get better.

My Plan:

For my print I am going to make it print a total of seven pieces rather than one. This would include: three hooks, two eyes, one nose, and one main body. I have to make holes in the main body so everything can fit in and stay in place properly. This is my new design:

Final Design:

For my first design, I put a raft down, a raft is a layer of plastic from the 3D printer. this layer provides a stable flat uniform base to start the printing from.

For my second design I chose to change the thickness of each layer from .2mm to .15mm. this will change two things, first it will make the print to have a lot more detail and the print will be higher quality, the second thing this will change is the print time, because each layer is now thinner it will take longer to print. 

For my last design I added supports, supports will support prints as they buildup. they are important for big prints but the only downside is that it adds time to the print time. Other than that it is a great thing to use while printing.

Week 3

TinkerCAD explorations:

The Cube is a half inch wide cube with a quarter inch diameter ball inside of the cube. the holes on each face of the cube have a quarter inch sized hole making the cube hallow. while in real life it is printed at double the size, the cube being a square inch and the sphere being half an inch. It was created by first making a half inch square, then you are going to make a quarter inch hole on all of the faces making the cube hallow. lastly you make a quarter inch sphere and put it inside the cube. 

The design I Found on tinkerCAD was another coat hanger. This design is a lot more simple than our design it is simply a basic coat hanger. it has a reticular prism with rounded edges. The hook its self is just a pole with half a sphere on top of the pole.

Gadget Design:

In the other groups designs all were advanced they all used a wide virility of tools used, most used holes and grouping to make parts that were not available. the headphone holder used grouping, while the toothbrush holder used both holes and grouping. The last was the case for an arduino board. this was the most advanced using many groups and holes.