Migdalia Ocasio

My project was a 3-D print of a plaque that represents Jame and I, Jame being my significant other. These items on the plaque were sushi, onigiri, time, a heart and two rings. The plaque also had our initials. My goals were to make an aesthetically pleasing plaque, with a lot of meaning and I think I accomplished that. I hoped to learn how the 3-D programs and the makerbot worked. The first step was making the 3-D model that you wanted to make in your preferred program, mine being tinkercad. After making my model i tweaked any small details and got a peer review to see where I can improve. Lastly I printed to see how my final plaque looked. It wasn’t always that easy because I ran through several problems. The first being shape consistency. The more you moved a shape the more it morphed so I had to move it carefully. The second problem was that it wasn’t saving over and over but I got it to work. I had success with the program overall and it was fairly easy to use. In this project I learned to use tinkercad, the makerbot, dimensions, how to scale specific items and how to transfer an object from one program to the other.  I learned that 3-D printing isn’t as intimidating as i first thought. It seems complicated but it’s fun and useful. I learned that there are many advantages in 3-D printing for the world. If I had to do it over again I’d probably print sooner to see if the prototype looked good before the final product to tweak any more imperfections. I would advise others to ALWAYS save your files because you might lose it. Next i think i’ll be using 3-D to do more work because it’s fun. I think the program helped me immensely with how easy it was and I definitely did better because of it.