colLABoration

Our cool down project to finish off the semester was collaborating with a partner to create a 3D FDM printed object. Before we met with our partners we had to come up with 3 concepts that would later be used to create a mashup with one of the other person's 3 concepts.

My three concepts were:

Lattice

Twisting and an asymmetrical taper

Extendable

A sneaky little print in place extendable container.

Mixy

A mixture of lattice and solid

My partner's 3 concepts were:

We chose to combine the lattice effect from my concepts and the stand-like structure from their object. As we built the new object we made some tweaks to fit it as tightly as we could within the 4x4x6 inch limitations. My partner was also able to look up the flow command to allow us to give that twister iron look to the stand. Neither object was directly used in the end but a new object was made inspired equally by each other's work and a collaborative approach to designing the new container.

 

My partner and I both wanted to push the limits of what we could successfully print and in doing so we had a couple print failures, luckily they were quite early on. We made some adjustments to the the first layer size for the central part of the form and then the rest of the print went smoothly.