Week 7

Week 7 - Designing Keyrings for 3d printing

Who would have thought that producing plastic products could be so easy. When I was young, toys are usually bought at stores, homemade toys are usually made out of paper or sticks and stuck together with glue or tape. Today, one can design our own plastic products and manufacture it in a compact factory in the comfort of our homes. This week, our class have made keyrings, it is our introduction to 3D printing.

Just like printing with paper, we first have to design what we print. It is much more complicated and take up more resources however, as we will not be using ink. Instead, plastic is molten to form the shape of what we want to print.

In week 7, we learnt how to use Fusion 360 to perform computer aided design and drafting. The pictures below are our individual designs for our key rings

Darren

Gwyn

Adam

Gideon

During the lesson, with the aid and guidance of our lecturer, we created a shape using different functions such as the vertical/horizontal function and the concentric function.

Gideon