Cyrus Jones Print in Place 15 Degrees

Lesson Plan & Constraints:

The Objective of this print in place project was to take an image online and trace that image in the software Solidworks and make it a 3D object within a 8cmx8cm constraint box. While doing this my partner and I had to utilize the boss extrude, boss cut and the mirror tool to make this rebel image a 3D fidget.

My partner and I started off by choosing the rebel symbol from star was. After finding our symbol we made a 3D circle in Solid works, where we then took a screen shot and inserted it into solid works. We put this screen shot over the circle making the lines match up with the outer-parts of the circle.

Next, we both traced around the symbol trying to make the lines match up the best we could with the arc tool in solid works helping us to make curves around the circle. 

After we sketched along the lines of the image we used the offset tool as many times as we can to make the most amount of outlines inside the original trace. This is so we can make more extrudes leading to more individual pieces which allows the piece to move more freely giving a cooler effect on the fidget toy.

After making the sketched lines on the original screenshot, we deleted the screenshot so we were left with the sketch by itself.  

After Boss extruding the sketch, I did many more boss extrudes and boss cuts in order allowing space in between each individual piece. I angled each cut and extrude at 15 degrees to be able to get the most amount of efficient spacing. Since all of this work was being done on the front plane of the sketch, that meant it was 3D but only have of the fidget was complete. Because of this I mirrored what was on the front plane and copied the first part over the front plane making it symmetrical on each side. This was the finial look is solidworks before it was printed.

After printing with a blue filament this was the