3D Printing

In October we learned how to do the basics of 3D printing. This amazing technology allows you to create an object of your choice on a computer and then build it right infront of your eyes. We created simple, yet intricate, luggage tags as our first project. These luggage tags showed us some basic steps on how to navigate 3D printing. Using the program Tinkercad, our engineering class learned how to add letters, symbols, and numbers to a base. For example, our "base" was the luggage tag. We enscripted our names onto the part of the tag that we wanted and added our own personal designs to them. Tinkercad offers a wide variety of shapes to add onto another shape or combine into another shape. You can combine different shapes to make a new shape of your choice on Tinkercad. If someone wanted to create a certain object that the program did not offer, they could use the shapes provided and morph them into their desired shape.

We used a Lulzbot Mini to 3D print our tags.