Redesign project
Our task for this project was to come up with a new idea for the holders of the tools. In this process I learned many different things.
Prework
For my original reasearch I found some ideas online that I thought would be good for the tool holders, I sketched these out. After I sketched my ideas out I picked my favorite one and added dimentions. However after designing my original design I realized that it was going to take a long time and use a lot of filament so I tried to brainstorm ideas on how to reduce the amount of time it took to print. After thinking I came up with a completly new design that I didnt have in my original work.
These were some of the designs that I found that are already on the market that I based some of my designs off of.
Completion
This was my original design on inventor, when I put this into maker bot it said that it would take almost 30 hours. I decided to scratch this idea after not finding any solutions to cutting out some of the filament This was my new idea for the redesign project that I designed, I figured that this would be smaller and use less filament. In general I thought this design was better than my first one so I decided to go ahead and print it. Here are screenshots from the making of this piece However after I printed it and went to test it I realized that the design didn't work. This happened because I didn't incorporate enough room for the 3 handles, so many of them overlapped and it was hard to get them in and out so I went back to the drawing board. This is my sketches for the final design After thinking about ways to resolve the problems I came up with a new idea. Since I really like the way I designed my previous attempt and chop it into thirds making it 3 separate parts. Here are my inventor files for all 3 of the new separate parts. In a way having 3 different parts for each of the types of t-handles is smart because then you can take individual sets of the t-handles out of the tool chest. Here is one of the pieces in maker bot this is one of my holders 3d Printing Final Project |
Conclusion
In conclusion I learned a lot from this project. The first thing that I learned was that you dont always get it right on the first try. I also relearned how to use inventor and how to use the 3d printer. In addition this project gave me a bigger view of what you can actually make on the 3d printer.