Allyson Wagner Portfolio

Hello

My name is Allyson Wagner and I am a Junior, SMAD Major with an Interactive Design concentration, as well as a General Business and a British Media and Communications minor. I have a twin sister named Katie (she recently dyed her hair red) so if you see her around say hi and confuse her! I LOVE to travel, and plan to move to London after I graduate!

Grab Bag Noun: Soup

The noun that I chose was soup. The design process was really fun, however, it also took much longer than I expected. I watched a few tutorials and googled questions when they arose, but the trickiest part of the process was simply the design interactions. It was difficult to understand the rotation process, as well as sizing. The other difficulty that I faced, was shaping the objects to look the way I wanted them to. There were very few options for creating custom shapes, and that made it difficult to create the soup spill.

Although I liked my design in Tinkercad, it didn’t actually print the way that I expected it to. I think that the supports make it unclear that my soup is spilling onto the floor. Next time, I will be sure to make my design completely flat so that the supports do not ruin the final project.

20 Objects

Here is a list of my 20 objects.

House with wicked witch of the west feet
Melted ice cream
Lemonade with ice cubes
Candle
Traffic cone
Red Wagon
Coconut
Cake with strawberry frosting
Snitch (from Harry Potter)
Planting pot
Cyprus tree
Snowman
Butterfly
Boat
Pizza with pepperoni
Book with turning pages
I-Phone
Flower
Light bulb
Palm Tree

I decided to print my brick house with wicked witch of the west feet, because I thought that it would be the most fun/most difficult to print. The first print failed, because I did not support the brick wall with a solid wall, and so the printer printed supports throughout the entire house. When I tried to get the supports out of the first print, the loose bricks fell out as well. Once I added a solid supportive wall behind the brick wall, the print came out perfect!

Moving Objects

For my moving parts assignment, I decided to create a little wagon with moving wheels. The first print that I did was not successful, but only because I accidentally printed the wheels more ovular than I had anticipated. Once I fixed that mistake, the print came out perfect!

The only thing that I would do differently next time, is find a way to keep the wheels on the axel. They work and move, but because I do not have an end piece, they sometimes fall off.

Tinkercad Final Project: Ford 1966 F-100

For my final project, I decided to create a Ford 1966 F-100. This model and make is the truck that my boyfriend drove when he first learned how to drive, and I wanted to give him this gift in memory of that truck.

I have started the design process, creating the base of the truck, and many of the base details. This process has taken me quite a while, as there are many small details to account for. I have used many cubes, rectangular prisms, and scribble tool designs. For this project, the scribble tool has been my best friend. It is difficult to use, but it allows me to create designs unique to my truck. I still need to complete the top part of the truck, and some other final details, including the side mirrors.

In order to illustrate my design process, I wrote out the steps that I have already taken, as well as my plans for the future. Below you will see this illustration. The steps go as stated:

#1: Decide what object I wanted to create and why

#2: Once I decided on my design (a 1966 Ford F100) I started researching images

#3: Then, I looked at some images of trucks already created in Thingyverse

#4: Next, I started building my design by creating the base of the truck

#5: After that, I created the detail work on the sides and front of the truck. Including, the wheel bumps, the grill, and the truck bed.

#6: I plan on completing this design, by creating the part of the truck that humans sit in, as well as the side mirrors and any other final details

My final truck came out looking very good in Tinkercad. Completing the design process took a while, as I had to create a curved top section as well as small details like the windshield wipers, the mirrors, the license plates, the front logo, and the antenna. Creating the top section (the part where humans sit) was certainly more difficult than the rest of the truck. I wanted it to look like a real 1966 F-100, which means it had to have a slightly larger top than base, as well as a curved top. In order to do this, I used some of the community shape tools as well as created my own curved shape using the scribble tool. Creating the side mirrors was also a challenging process. They are very detailed and small, which required me to use a variety of shapes in order to make it realistic. The final challenging piece to this project, was creating spinning wheels. I make cylinderical indents into the bottom of the truck, as well as cylinders to place inside those indents, for the axels to go inside. I then had to make axels that would fit inside those cylinders and wheels that fit on the axels. I also had to make sure the wheels fit inside the wheel indents in the truck. It was challenging getting all of these pieces together, but I made it work.

Printing the object was also a struggle. The printers were not working very well that week, and I had to re-print my object about 3 different times. When it did finally print all the way through, the object did not show the level of detail I desired, however it came out pretty good. The wheels spin and sit very well inside the axel holders. One of the difficulties of printing, was removing the supports from all of the small details, but I was able to do it successfully.

Fusion 360 Ring

Creating this ring was definitely a challenge. Fusion 360 is a really cool program, but it is so different from anything that I have done before, that it was hard to use. My ring, however, fit my finger perfectly and turned out pretty cool (despite the weird orange color). Using Meshmixer was also a little challenging. I uploaded about 10 different stencils, but found that Meshmixer does not show as many details as I had hoped, despite changing the size and strength of the stencil. I originally printed a ring with yin and yang symbols, but they were so small that you couldn’t tell what they were. In order to fix this, I found a stencil with just the right amount of detail, and instead of stenciling indents, I used the stencil to create flowers that came out from the ring. These flowers were much more pronounced and my ring turned out a lot better.

This is my test print.

This is my final print, using a flower stencil. I originally stenciled various sizes of the flower, but I found that a uniform size and space created a ring that I found most atheistically pleasing.

20 Objects – Fusion 360

Fusion 360 is a very difficult program to use, so my 20 objects are not exactly the most advanced. I utilized the create form and modify features quite a bit while creating my objects, and after a while was able to understand many of the features functionalities. One of the most difficult parts of this program is simply moving objects around the plane, as they do not just move when you click them. However, after a while, I got the hang of it.

I decided to print the pillow and the pancake with butter, as I thought they were the must fun/atheistically pleasing objects that I created.

It took a while to print, but I am proud of my pillow and pancake with butter!

Fusion 360 Final Project- Flexi Kangaroo

I decided to create a flexi animal for my final project. I have wanted to make one in the past, and with all the abilities of this program, I think that it is the perfect time.

In order to create the flexi Kangaroo, I had to first create a hinge. To do this, I did a bunch of research to find the perfect flexi hinge, and then using Fusion 360, I created my own version based off of other peoples designs. To create the hinge, I used various sketch and modify tools, including the fillet. I also used various boxes, a cylinder, and a hole tool. Creating the hinge was difficult, because I was not exactly sure how each piece was going to play into the final design, so I ended up doing multiple iterations. Below you will see an image of the final hinge.

To create the Kangaroo, I imported a Kangaroo SVG and adjusted the height and size to fit my needs. I was originally going to create a Kangaroo myself using the program, but with the time constraints, and the difficulty of the program, I decide to import and SVG instead. It took a while to find a free SVG that suited my needs. Next, I imported the hinge into the Kangaroo section. As stated earlier, the hinge was not exactly right the first time, so I made some changes modified the hinge to suite my needs. I had to do this a couple of times, because each time I got a step further in the process, I realized my hinge was not going to work. In order to get multiple hinges, I copied and pasted the hinges and adjusted them along the body of the kangaroo. Below you can view this process.

Next, I combined the hinges to the body of the Kangaroo, using combine and cut function. I cut the rectangles and the box that I created around the body of the hinge in order to create the area for the hinge as well as the spaces between each section of the Kangaroo. As stated earlier, I had to adjust the hinges as well as their placement multiple times. One of the iterations that I had to do, was to create the long rectangles. I originally did not realize that I needed them in order to cut through the entire kangaroo (to make it flexi). Once I realized I needed them, I inserted them. However, the rectangles were not long enough to cut through the entire Kangaroo, which made it so that the Kangaroo was not separated into sections. This required me to adjust the height of each rectangle. I also had to make iterations to the hinge that held together the bottom leg of the Kangaroo, because it was not the right length. In order to do this I adjusted the height of the hinge, and I filleted the bottom of the hinge so that it would connect at an angle tot he body of the kangaroo. In order to adjust the height of the hinge, I had to take it apart and make changes to the entire hinge. Below you can see the specific hinge that I am referencing.

Overall, the process of creating this Kangaroo, took a while. It was also very frustrating, because I kept having to make iterations to my design in order to make it work. I really wish that I was able to print my design, because I worked so hard on making the proportions just right, so that the printer would not print supports between the cylinder that connected the hinge to the body of the Kangaroo horizontally, and the hinge itself. However, regardless of being able to print the design or not, I am still very proud of my accomplishment in Fusion 360. Below you will see images of the final Flexi Kangaroo.

OpenSCAD Chaos Loop

I found this assignment to be really fun! I have some experience coding, and so it was very interesting learning what functions were able to be executed with this program. In order to learn some of the program’s capabilities, I looked back at the tutorial set up by the JMU student. I copied his loop into new page and started playing around. I started at the top and went down, changing each of the codes in order to understand how the different functions worked (rotate, union, translate, ect.). Then, I started changing the type of shape, from cube to sphere to cylinder, and so on. I used the OpenSCAD guide in order to find the code for these things.

Next, I decided to make my own loop, so I started with the, for (i = [0:0]) {
rotate([0,0,0 * i]) { }} in order to start my loop, and adjusted it adding 8 to the loop, and 40 on the z axis to the rotate function. I then added a union function to combine the shapes and a translate([2,2,2]) to create a uniform shape. I then created a polyhedron using the OpenSCAD guide and mirrored the polyhedron on the z axis in order to mirror the shape on the top to the bottom (so it looked like a cut diamond shape).

I am not sure if my design is unprintable, or how I would know if it is unprintable, but it was very fun to make, and I think it is very pretty!