Monday, 31 March 2014

Inventor: Object 1

I created this model with an old fashioned table in mind but it still had a dalek aesthetic...

Sketch 1: drew a profile of a dalek base
Finish sketch. Extrude symmetrically
Sketch 2: project symmetry from sketch 1. Draw circles
Finish sketch. Extrude cylinders
Using concentric hole tool created a hole through the centre of all the four cylinders

Filleted these areas of the model in hope it would make them stronger once printed

Filleted where the legs join the tabletop at their top
Filleted where the legs join the base of the table as well.
Went back into sketch 1 to change the profile of the tabletop and give it a couple more edges and a pointy bit because I thought it was a bit to square
Updated profile
Final table
Exported stl in 123D Make
I decided to 3D print this model

Unfortunately in removal of my model from the printing bed the legs were broken off. I think was possibly because the fill we chose to set the printer to was not solid and the legs had hole in them in the first place.
I have blue tacked the legs on here for the purpose of demonstrating what the model would have looked like even though blue tac is an adhesive and brief states "no glues, tapes or adhesives". The blue tac was removed after these photos were taken   
Up the right way. The raft was a bit of a mission to get get off hence the top surface is discoloured

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