Chocolate Mold Project

In this project, we were assigned a partner from the Mandarin 1A class and had to create a chocolate mold based on the design that they provided. The project requirements were the following:

Create a single-serving, circular piece of chocolate that is 0.25" tall and 2.5" diameter
Use the design provided by our partner
Keep one side of design with a design; the other side will be flat for mold making
Provide design ideas to our partner based on the aspects that they wanted
Make up to a maximum of two silicon molds

BRAINSTORMING:

In this project, my partner was Rafay, and the design that he provided was this:

It was requested that the design consists of three things: A mooncake(top right), his name(middle), and bamboo.

According to our project requirements, we had to provide sketches to our partner. Though I made 6, my three main ones are attached below:

Rafay chose the 2nd one on the right column, which I slightly modified and created.

DESIGN PROCESS:

I started by creating the two characters in Rafay's name. I searched up the two and traced them in Fusion 360. Thanks to the spline tool, I was able to easily sketch it, and the move tool allowed me to rearrange them. After creating the characters, I searched up bamboo decal images, and pulled up an image bamboo on two sides with a gap in the middle. In the gap is where I decided to place the name. As for the mooncake, I searched an image of a mooncake design, and traced it. I had to cut the mooncake at a weird angle at first, because it wouldn't fit otherwise. Then, I sent it to the printer and it gave me a 3D printed coin.

REVISION NO. 1:

Some things that I noticed after my first print were:

The printer doesn't seem to be able to print too thin stalks of bamboo
The mooncake looks weird at the angle I left it at

To deal with this, I went into the sketch of the bamboo and extended the stalk by pulling on some of the points. As for the mooncake, I was able to just move it up by selecting the sketch lines. I cut it exactly at half, which definitely made it look better.

REVISION NO. 2:

On second thought, the half cut mooncake doesn't look that good ;)

To fix it, I just moved the mooncake down, more than before, and that looked better.

This was my final design on Fusion 360

MOLD MAKING:

This was my first mold. However, when I made it, I found that there was a white splotch from the mixed siicon and that there were some loose spots and creased areas as well. So, I redid it.

MOLD REVISION 2:

On second revision, it came out better, just with a small hole and some overhangs. To fix it, I just patched up the hold and trimmed the overhang.

OUL REFLECTION
Strength - I was pretty strong on designing the plastic to put into the silicon, but my mold-making may have needed some more practice to make it cleaner

Opportunities - I think that if I had finished my plastic faster, I could have spent more time making the silicon mold

Understanding - I was able to practice with all sorts of features in Fusion 360, especially the sketch and extrude tools to make the design look better.

Limitations - I think that the hardest restriction that I had was the amount of molds we were allowed to make. If I had the chance to make another, I definitely make one.

WISCR REFLECTION

I think that I was able to hit the I, S,C, and R in WISCR. The I (Insightful and critical thinkers) was because we had to use our learning to make a plastic piece for a chocolate mold. S (Self - motivated) was because I had to keep on going and make many revisions. The C (Clear communicators), was because we had to communicate with our partners effectively to get the best result possible. And finally, the R (Respectful individuals of character), was because we had to acknowledge our partners ideas, even if we didn't like them that much.

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