3D printing 

First project on the printer: Calibration Cube

First project on the printer: Calibration Cube

Roller Chain Modeling Challenge

Time - 4 Class Periods

Challenge Objective - 3D model a roller chain link of your own design and print a series of five links without print supports.  When completed, the link should move as a roller-type chain.

Criteria

• Must be designed in SolidWorks

• Prepared in a slicer for additive manufacturing

• 3D printed in PLA filament

• An individual link cannot take up more space than 20mm²

• Test prints (no more than two links) are required before full prints (no more than 5 links)

• No slicer-generated supports allowed  

First Chain Link

Test Print

Final Chain

Chain Designs 

Topper

• Must be designed in SolidWorks

• Prepared in a slicer for additive manufacturing

• 3D printed in PLA filament

• The object cannot take up more space than as 80mm sphere.

• Unlike the previous year, you must create a ring to fit over the vertical monitor support.  Make sure to use a caliper to measure.  Don’t rely on a peer’s measurements. The object will then somehow be attached to the side of the ring so that the other student from the other class can also display their  project on the other side of the support.

• Test prints for the ring support are required before full prints (this has to be displayed on the ePort).

Build In SolidWorks

Slicer