Orthodox Cross PIP Fidget Telescope by John

Summary:

This is a fun Print in Place fidget cross that will keep you busy for hours!! It will extend when you pick it up. I worked with my friend Emanuell, and we chose this shape because we wanted a nice challenge and it connected to both of us.

Design Statement:

Using tools like sketch offset and draft extrusion/cut, you and your partner will make identical telescopic fidgets that fit within an 18x18cm constraint box. You can add a handle to the fidget if wanted but it is not needed. The sketch does not need to be fully defined and should contain no errors.

Instructions:

1. First, find the picture that you desire to make into the Fidget.

2.  Then, using simple sketching skills, trace the outline of the image chosen.

3. Offset the sketch going into it, starting with 0.0,8 then 0.24 alternating until you can't anymore. (If the offsets overlap, use power trim to separate the sketches and individually offset those other pieces.)

4. Boss extrude the outer last layer to a height of 0.75 cm and a draft angle of 32.37 degrees outward or inward, depending on what works best for you.

5. Cut extrude the next layer going through all and having a draft angle of 32.37 going outward or inward( Depending on the last one)

6. Repeat steps until all layers are gone, but make the extrudes up to the surface instead of blind, then click on the surface of the first extrude.

7. Select everything and mirror it on itself from either side (the smaller side is stronger, but the larger side looks better)

Design changes:

1. When first tracing the design, we made it too complicated, which really messed up the system, where it was overwhelmed and just didn't let you offset anything. We solved this by simplifying the sketch, as there were a lot of unnecessary lines.

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After some offsets, the edges would get too sharp, which made it impossible to extrude and cut, which was solved by using the fillet tool, but some edges you couldn't fillet, so we manually made fillets with arcs.

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1. We had some time on our hands, so we decided to make a design on the top of the fidget in the dead space.

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4. Realized that the words were way too small for it to print with it making sense, so I changed up the design completely to make it bigger.

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5. Made the first layer thicker by using rollback to go back to the first offset, where we then offset that and extruded again, which set everything in line

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