What can you do with it?
Using these 3D printer can pretty much print anything out that you can draw in Inventor and that will fit into the actual 3D printer itself which you can technically print things out in parts and then put them together if you wanted to. The only step in between is converting it to a SLT file and setting it up in the MakerBot software and putting it on a flash drive and taking that to the printer itself.
Individual Project
Project Description:
Create a decorative cell phone holder, toot brush holder or device to neatly hold 50-pennies 40-nickels 50-dimes 40-quarters
I chose the tooth brush holder because I had an idea in mind right away for a tooth brush holder in my mind.
Create a decorative cell phone holder, toot brush holder or device to neatly hold 50-pennies 40-nickels 50-dimes 40-quarters
I chose the tooth brush holder because I had an idea in mind right away for a tooth brush holder in my mind.
Started off with a rectangle and then went from there( First Rough Dimensions).
Another step was making the wholes for the tooth brushes.
Now this part looks pretty simple but to make this dome looking like I wanted to it was kinda hard to do because there isn't just a "Dome" or "Round off" tool that you can use.
After I designed it in Inventor I moved it to MakerBot to get it set up to print.
One picture of when I just started printing it, took 10 hours. Then a couple pictures before I took it home and then a Picture of me actually using it.
Summary
I learned a lot of new things of Inventor just from making this project because Willauer does not have enough time to show us how to use everything in it. I think if I had to do another project like this I would be able to a lot easier and faster than I did this one. If I could change something about this I would because there were a couple of features that I wanted to do but couldn't because they were way out of my skill range for this project.