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Learning sketch up

I learned the importance of measuring and being exact. I also learned how you have to be careful build things to scale, because if your off it can mess up the whole piece your print. Here is the picture of a part for a pencil holder i designed. This is the piece that fits into a separate part. We designed a pencil dispenser. We based are dispenser off of a normal tooth pick dispenser. The pencils lay horizontally into a box. Inside the box their is a ramp that causes the pencils to roll out of the box, through the whole at the bottom. The pencils don’t roll out the box because of this piece below. The piece blocked the pencils from coming out, but we are able to roll this piece so that pencils roll around the piece and out the dispenser.

make 2 of piece 2

 

Meow Meow Mice Hanger

meowmeowmeow (1)  First we began sketching models of what the mice hanger’s should look like. We wanted a single hanger that could fit more than one mouse at a time, and we wanted a theme. Since one of the mouse’s most infamous enemy is the cat (Tom&Jerry) we decided that a mouse hanger shaped as a cat paw would work perfectly.  Making the final model on sketch-up was fairly difficult, with a lot of steps to make the mouse hanger look like a cat paw, we finally a final copy as to which the the mice will hopefully (If we win) will be hanging.

USB Port Organizer

We made an organizer for the USB ports with the 3D printed objects on the end.  In attempt to make the room more organized we based our idea off of a garden rake.  We have three hooks coming off of a circle that can be drilled into the wall.  Each hook is a place for one of the USB drives, but more can be stored on each hook.  We used the follow me tool as well as the push pull tool to get the shape of the hooks.  We had to rotate the hooks to create the rake look.  This was difficult for my partner and I because the rotate tool was very hard to use.  Eventually we finished and our new system of organization was finishedUSB drive hooks