Tedd W Meinersmann - 6 Sided Dice

This six-sided dice started life as a technical drawing, which then I rendered in Fusion360 CAD, then sliced in PrusaSlicer a 3D printing software, and finally then printed on a Prusa MINI+ 3D printer.

Lessons learned:

Fusion360, A big part of 3D rendering is understanding the separations between different sketches and how they do and don't interact with each other. Figuring this out was a source of frustration, but when I did eventually figure it out work flowed rather seamlessly.

PrusaSlicer, A rendering software that translates a .3mf file to a file that can be understood by a 3D printer.This software was actually rather easy to understand. This program had controls for the amount and style of filling for the object that were easy to control. The view controls are similar to AutoCAD which I have some experience with, and the settings are straight-forward.

The Print, The Prusa MINI+ that I used initially had some issues with loading the filament and was able to produce a base but failed to move filament from the roll to the printer's nozzle. After two attempts I moved my print to a different printer with a different filament and the print worked much better producing the white dice. This issue I attribute to the filament quality that I was using, as the initial filament had a groove form where the drive wheel was attempting to grab and move it through the machine and to the nozzle. Next time I will pay close attention to the process of the print.

2D Technical drawing, Fusion 360 has many workflow advantages built into itself making it easy and intuitive to create. As far as I can tell, the title block has not been one of the portions that has been streamlined quite yet. All other aspects of converting 3D renders to 2D are amazingly easy and convenient. The title block I found to be clunky and un precise in it's creation.

Inspection and inspection report After the printing of any project comes the inspection to determine if the printing was acceptable and if any adjustments need to be made. This process is really straight forward, although when using with delicate measurement instruments it is important to not measure the correct parameters and not mistakenly measure off of a sloped edge. This was the case with measuring the dots as they are in all aspects rounded.

Tedd's Dice Drawing 2D v1.pdf

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Tedd's 6 sided dice inspection report.pdf

For item 9 I found the dot to be out of tolerance but still accepted it. This was because I determined the dot's size was not crucial to the overall function of the dice.

Update: 25Jan2023

Recently I told my Cousin, who lives 2,500 miles away in Maine about my project. He asked for the file to reproduce in the Computer Science program at the grade school that he works at. I sent him the file and he was able to produce a pretty sweet rendition of my 6-sided dice.

My dice has a twin!

I'm looking forward to sharing more projects and ideas. Awesome stuff!

Check out this 20-sided Dice!