Day 7: (Wed Feb 7, Week 4) Project Pitches; Mold Design Tutorial

Notes for 2024-02-07.

New Assignments

New assignment: Exercise: Mold Design Workshop, with results to Exercise 7 Shared Folder. If at all possible I’d like to have molds printed over the weekend and ready by Monday. Please submit by Friday afternoon and notify me by email so I can quickly review your design before it prints.

Agenda

1. Review project pitches (Exercise 6 Shared Folder)

   • crawling pneumatic creature

   • “blow-molding” 3D prints

   • mobile interactive creature

   • earthworm

   • tentacle or additive folding

2. Mold design workshop

   • Design Example: Open Molded Soft Silicone Flexure

   • sample: flexure-test-1.zip or individual files at flexure-test-1

   • SolidWorks Overview

   • Using SolidWorks on Virtual Andrew

3. 3D printer submissions

   • Mold 1 3D Printer Submissions

   • IDeATe 3D Printing Guide