Prototyped a base for my roomate's 2 Wheeled Self-Balancing robot. He had a couple of design requirements for me to follow and asked that I make a base under a time constraint. He specified that he wanted the base to have four sperate shelves for all of the circuit boards to sit on, have the motors be held on with only zip ties, and make it as light and balanced as possible.
To the left is one of the final renderings I showed my roomate to get more feedback before starting the print. Here you can see I quicly modeled the breadboard and motors he was using to ensure correct fitment between parts. There are only three shelves shown here, because the design requirements were fairly open-ended at this point. To combat this and provide quick updates, I built the shelves using the linear pattern tool which allowed me to change the number of levels and have the whole base update accordingly.
Here is the final print - with a hand as scale. The motors in this print actually ending up fitting so well that no zip ties were needed. I designed a little lip around the top edge of the motor to rest, and a center circle to help position itself. The clips held the motors in with enough force that they did not budge while moving.