Project 4 - Clip on a Shape

Project 4: Clip on a Shape

Background: Inspired by the work of Maria Jennifer Carew, I set out to build a super simple, sleek piece of jewelry that would attach to clothing like paper clips attach to paper.

What I thought would be a three hour design process turned into 15+ hour design process. The ending result being a quite simple looking design, slightly bulkier than intended. I can say, I learned a lot in the process. I should preface that this is my first time designing anything in a 3D software. The learning curve was steep - especially when using a brand new program that hasn't built up a user help forum yet.

Software used: I used the newly launched AutoDesk Fusion. At the end, I used MeshMixer (also an AutoDesk program) to polish up the design so it was ready to be printed.

Project 4: Clip on a Shape
What: Decorative add on for clothing

This shows the final design and how MeshMixer added supports.
I used a lot of the Autodesk fusion tutorials on youtube to get here.

To print, I used the Up! machine in the lab. It was easy to use - fairly user friendy.

This photo is a bit difficult to understand - but it shows the process of
the Up printer printing out the shape.

Here's the final piece printed out. I learned that I should have made the supports
thinner and less dense. Even though, they looked thin enough on the screen, they turned out really dense. It
took me a good half hour to push out the supports. I may have missed a trick to remove the supports?

This is the final piece after the supports were removed.

Here's what it looked like when I tried it on. It was a bit bulkier than I wanted.
The next time I print it - I'd like to make it thinner and put a bit more creativity into changing the style.

As a final experiment, Jose and I tried scanning each other's heads into a 3D
shape. For the first few tries, we looked like zombies, with half missing heads (sorry, no photos were kept).
We found using a rotating chair was the easiest way for a person to move with the other person held steady
with the scanner. Here was the result.

Kate Mytty

How to Make (Almost) Anything