The Prototype:

Our planning process included the group's collaboration on what method we should use to begin creating our skeletal model. For the skull,  we would use the 3D printer to print the skull.   We would make a hard drive and digitally put it into the computer. We would use Tinkercad to create the skull and later 3D print. We had to figure out a way to hold it and other parts of the skeletal system in place with the 3D printer. The 3D printer would sketch out the design we used from Tinkercad and begin to 3D print what we sketched. Our materials included 3-D printing fibers (polylactic acid) and air dry clay (overlay). We would use Tinkercad to create the skull and later 3D-print it. We would use cult3d.com to form the ribs and then 3D-print. We would have 24 ribs with a sternum, clavicle, and scapula scaled to ⅓ of the average human body (6ft). We used Tinkercad to create and print out the spinal column using a 3-D printer. We will paint over the spinal column after it has been 3-D printed. The 3D printer works by modeling, slicing, printing, and post-processing. It works by exposing a layer of photosensitive liquid resin to a UV-laser beam. The resin then hardens in the desired pattern, and the object is built layer by layer until it is complete.