3D Printed Magnet

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Limits and Consideration

Out of consideration to your peers and minimizing print time:

Your shape will be up to 3mm thick, up to 40mm long, and up to 40mm wide. Your design must fall within this size to allow time for hot gluing.

A note about designing efficiently for the 3D printer: a design that is "laying down" tends to print faster than a design that is "standing up" -- laying down has fewer layers, and standing up has more.

Advantages of TinkerCad

Create a free TinkerCad account at TinkerCad.com.

• TinkerCad is free

• It autosaves your work

• It is easy to share your work to Thingiverse.com

• Importing SVG files is easy

• It includes short lessons you can practice later

Starting TinkerCad

After creating a new account, TinkerCad automatically starts in lesson mode.

Go to New Project or New Design. Many of our shape and tool options are on the right.

Using TinkerCad

Use the white cubes to resize objects.

Use the cone to raise and lower objects along the Z-axis.

Use the curved handles to rotate or flip objects.

Check Alignment, if applicable

Select All, go to Adjust > Align. Click on a gray dot to align to Top/Middle/Bottom, or Left/Center/Right.

*Advanced Move: You can measure with the digital calipers the width of the magnet. You can then add the negative space so the magnet fits into the 3D shape.

Select All and Group.

Name and Download

Click on Design. Select Properties to rename your file. When finished renaming, select Download for 3D printing. Select STL. Save your file. We'll collect files for processing in MakerWare and for printing.

Print

Your print should take less than 10 minutes!

Apply Hot Glue and the Magnet

Allow the hot glue gun to get hot. Carefully apply a small bead of glue to the magnet and press the magnet on to the 3D print.

Survey

Surveys are here: https://sites.google.com/site/cplmakerlab/surveys