Parametric Pen and P-clip holder

This is a parametrically modeled pen and paper-clip holder that I designed and made.

Goal: Create a parametrically adjustable functional product.

My Idea was to create a pencil cup that also has organization for paperclips. I have just bought a package of paperclips and I feel as though I could make something that will hold them with better appeal than my current glass cup and plastic container. The paperclips came in six different colors so my thought was to make a container system that will still keep them separated by color and size. 

Because I designed the entire object with parameters as the dimensions, the cup is capable through the adjustment of the parameters in Fusion360 to be adjusted theoretically in virtually any way. I have tested this both intentionally and with a few typos.

Major parameters that I feel make this design most useful are the number of containers and the degrees at which they sit around the central cup.

Figuring out the order of operations was the most difficult part of this project. Initially I set a parameter for the number of p-clip cups to be assigned to the first sketch thinking that F360 would extrude new cups from the initial sketch. This turned out to not be how Fusion wanted to do things, and instead would just add new sketches for the cups with no extrudes.

The prints are complete! 

Below we have the parametric pen cups. These were sliced and printed using Prusa