Project- 3D Design and Modelining- Criteria A

Inquiry and Analyzing

Statement of Inquiry: Digital Design and Printing as a form of communication and output as evolved through time and space to influence the audience's perspective.

Introduction:

 I am a student of Digital Design and in year 8 as a digital design project we will be using a online software to create out own designs to help people resolve everyday issues in work that they do. The software that we are using is called Tinker CAD which creates very detailed designs for us to print using a 3D printer. As a part of our inquiry process and understanding about our statement of inquiry we looked at in which ways printing in general had evolved to history to reach the stage where we are able to perceptively design images online and make that into a real life sculpture that we can use everyday.

As a part of the MYP project i have decided to create a shoe rack that will only open with finger prints and that will have an automated cleaning machine to polish all types of shoes. It will also have the ability to fix any ruined shoes.

I have seen in my daily life that people in the community and my friends and family have some issues with their shoes and their pets. My friends also tell me stories about when their shoes have been seriously damaged because their pets have managed to get into the shoe rack and bitten off parts of shoes. another point is that when people come to school or go anywhere as a matter of fact their shoes are not up to a good standard. Teachers in school also get angry because shoes are not clean when they come into school. When adults go to important events, meeting and interviews then their and their companies standard are challenged because of the cleanliness of their shoes. the shoe cleaner will aslo polish any imperfections on the shoes that they may have, if any shoes are a ready damages in any ways then they will aslo be fixed in the mending compartments

 Primary Research:

 

 

 

Reflection:

I think that people that had problems with their pets taking their shoes understood and appreciated my idea, but people that didn't have a pet thought that it was not a major problem that is why they didn't think my idea was that good. After getting an explanation from me and a perspective from the people that have problems they agreed that this was a good idea. everyone rated this above a 5 which meant that the idea was good but no one gave a ten which means there could be improvements that could be made and one of them were if the machine could make the shoes as well so it would cost less money each time they had to get a new pair of shoes.

 

Secondary Research:

After doing my secondary research on the internet I have found that people have created a project that will protect shoes from dogs but the design is not full proof. The shoe racks that are available in shops and online now are ones that close inside themselves, this means when the whole thing is closed then the only thing that is visible is a flat surface. as I said before this is not full proof because the pets can reach up and click open the handle if it is within reach, in most cases it is. If this happens then  the shoes could be pulled out with not much effort  and be destroyed.

Where as in my design idea the shoes will not be able to be taken out because the doors will be locked by fingerprints and therefore even if the handle is within reach it will be of no use without the finger print. But this will not waste time as multiple fingerprints can be used to unlock once the setting is modified according to the costumers needs.so unlike the designs that available now my design would not let pets get into the shoe racks no matter how much they try.

 

 

        

                                                                                                                                                                                             

Tinker CAD Big Draw

Tinker CAD Big Draw Design

Task:

Make a Tinker CAD design for the big draw, make it creative and use all the skill you have learnt so far.

Steps For Penguin:

1) Put a sphere onto the grid

2) Stretch it into a oval

3) Make another smaller oval and place it inside the first oval

4) Add 2 small squished cylinders onto the face for the eyes

5)  Reshape a triangular pyramid and rotate and make it small to fit on the face as a beak

6) use a parabloid to make the arms

7) flatten it

8) Align it onto the body by rotating the grid

10) add 2 chicken feet at the bottom of the penguin

11) for the spatula use a flatten cube with holes and a thin cylinder

12) place it on the arm

13) group everything but remember to keep the multi colored function on

14) copy the penguin and make it smaller for the second penguin

Steps for the barbecue:

1) use 3 thin cylinders and a tube to make the stand

2) use 2 hemi-spheres for the top 

3) make a hole on the one on top

4) place thin sticks on the base one

5) make a small sphere and place it in between the sticks

6) make a few copies of that and place it between the sticks

Steps for the background and igloo:

1) flatten a cube and stretch it to make the ice

2) use a hemi-sphere to make the top of the igloo

3) use a cube to make the entrance

Reflection:

This was a very fun project it made me use  all of the skills that i learnt till date. i enjoyed making this a lot as i didn't have to follow instructions from another paper but i could think and experiment with whatever i wanted.

it was a simple design but it was not easy to make,  It was easy to make the background but it required a lot of effort to make the penguin. this was because it was hard to align everything . One of the hardest things to do was to make the arms fit in, because i only realized that i had to align the grid after doing all of the work. This design was not like the other designs as i could choose which parts i wanted to put in and what i didn't want to use. Over all this project was very enjoyable.

Tinker CAD Lesson 5

Lesson 5:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To make this crown I first had to bring a hemi-sphere onto the grid. Then I had to get one of the thin tubes and cut them in half by using a square and placing it half way through the tbe, then I hade the square a hole and grouped everything. When i had finished making the tube small enough I even placed it all aroung the hemi-sphere. After that I made the cylinder small and flattened it, after that I put it onto the hemi-sphere as well. For the round tube at the bottom I moved the thin tube onto the bttom of the Hemi-sphere. Finally I got a cone and placed it onto the top of the hemi-sphere. To add the finishing touches I coloured everything as shown in the picture and aliend anything that was remaining.

To me I found this very easy as I already knew hov to make all the pieces, the only thing that took me time was making everything well aligned. as in all of the other designs the shapes looked very well fitted from the front but when I rotated the gid to see how everything looked from the back it was a little disapoingting. But as I learnt how to fix that problem fast because of the practice on the other designs it became easier.

Tinker CAD lesson 4

Lesson 4 (tinker cad)

Castle:

 

 

 

Making this castle was very challenging as it required all the skill that we had learnt so far and may more. One of the hardest parts were do get everything aligned properly, including the ridges. It was not very hard to do the ridges on the wall as I could just find and ideal size for the hole and duplicate the size and place them on the wall. It was also easy because all of the ridges were in one direction. But on the other had doing the ridges on the circle was very hard, this was because every time we had to put a square hole on the circle we would have to rotate the grid to make sure the hole is at a good angle and is facing the right way. When aligning the cylinders it was easy and all aligned form the front angle, but the moment we went up or changed the angle of the grid it would not be aligned. This is the reason I had to start again. Making this castle was also fun as it was nice to experiment with the shape and we could move around the shapes with no instructions stopping us. But if there were instructions it would have been much easier to make the caste the way it looked on the paper.
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Car:

 

This car was also very hard to make but sine I had practice from making the caste without instructions it became much easier. This shape didn't require making any ridges or using too many hole so it was not as hard as the castle. In this I had to use different shapes than I had done in the previous one. it required me to make the base of the car using a parabloid and make it big enough to fit lights and wheels in it. the wheels' base was also make of the same shape and was given more detail with the tubes and a smaller parabloid. The middle was made out of a hemi-sphere and so was the front, just that in the front the shape was stretched out.
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Smaller shapes:

All of the smaller shapes were very easy to make as I had make complex designs like the castle and car. Though this was easy it required me to use all of the skills that I had learnt in the basic lessons. It required me to move my shapes around, to make the shapes go above the grid, to make holes in the shapes and to size the shapes properly. For the smiley face it required me to flatten the cylinder and then make holes for the eyes and mouth, Then I made the speech bubble but flattening another cylinder and added text onto it. For the Snowman looking spheres I just had to shape the spheres by making one big, then medium and one small I moved them up and stacked them. Finally I aligned the spheres from all sides. The house was also easy to make as I just stacked shaped on top of each other not needing to make any holes. Making the wagon like thing was not as easy as I expected but it was not very hard either, I made the shape of the wheels and place a hexagon above then. to make the hole I created a bigger hexagon and placed it on top. After this I made the bigger hexagon into a hole and grouped everything.
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tinkercad lesson 3

tinkercad lesson 3

lesson 6:

1)in this lesso i had to make a dice by ching the angle of the grid

2)i had to make a dice so the base of the shape was there but i had to move the grid to put the numbers

3) to do this i cliked the place that i wanted to move the numbers to after pressing W

4) i dragged the numbers on to the dice and scaled it so it is perfect

Reflection about all Lessons:

The lessons started very basic and kept getting harder and harder as i went through. I also l learnt many new skills every lesson. there are many tricks and shortcut on each lesson but it take a lot of time and effort to learn and properly use them. I was good at the first 4 lessons as I read the instructions and they were very basic and simple. then when the lessons started to get harder the instructions started to get longer and more complicated. in the end I learnt how to use all of the functions but I still need to polish using them.

Challenge: Make a Rocket-

This is the first rocket that I made using all of the skills that I learnt in the lessons. I used scaling, grouping, moving the grid around and changing the placement of the grid as well. I was hard as there were no instructions to help me but then when I got the hang of it, it became easier.

 

 

tinker cad Lesson 2

tinker cad lesson continued (5th Oct 2015)

I visited tinker cad and did lesson 1,2,3, 4 and 5

I went to lesson 1
1) we started simple
2) we just had to drag a shape from a grid to another place in the grid

I went to lesson 2
1) in lesson 2 I learnt to use the arrow keys
2) I learnt to move the grid around
3) and I also learnt how to see what is on the other side of the curtain

I went to lesson 3
1) for this one there was a shape of a spanner on the grid
2) then I dragged a hexagonal prism on to the shape
3) then I clicked the group button
4) my shape was done and I made a spanner that had a hole

i went onto lesson 4 and followed the steps
1) drag and drop a cylinder onto the grid
2) drop another cylinder next to it
3) the scale the second cylinder to 15mm
4) next to the 1st cylinder i copied and pasted another one and scaled it to 10mm

next I went to lesson 5
1)for this one we made a key ring
2) I dragged and dropped the alphabets onto the red base
3)I used my arrow keys to make it more precise
4) I altered the shape of the red base to make it the size of the name
5) I deleted the extra letters on the page and it was done