Hello
My name is Jorden McLean and I am a sophomore Geographic Science major, with a concentration in Applied Geographic Information Systems (AGIS). I play the trumpet in the Marching Royal Dukes. I’m also a photographer! I do it more on the side and I’m in the beginning stages of creating a portrait photography business, and hopefully within the next few years I can turn it into a half or full time business.
Grab Bag Noun: Chair
I chose to make a chair. I used multiple variations of the box shape; once I created the first leg, I copied and pasted the other 3. The finished chair was very big so I scaled down the entire thing before I printed it.
The final print turned out very well on the first try, and I am satisfied with the result.
20 Objects
- Little red house- made with a hollow box and triangle
- Wooden Pencil- a series of cylinders topped with a cone
- Staircase- brown rectangles stacked on each other
- Amazon Box- open on one side
- Rocket- grey cylinder with red fins
- Aircraft Carrier- modeled after a simple aircraft carrier off of google images
- Laptop- a series of grey and black rectangles
- Push Pin- multipoint cylinder capped with a cylinder and cone to make a needle
- Chocolate chip cookie- scribble shape with black triangles
- Black top hat- a flat black circle topped with a black cylinder
- Flashlight- a paraboloid on a gray handle
- Blue Mug- I took a cylinder and put a hole on it, and then put a curved handle
- Telephone- flattened curved cylinders with black circles as buttons
- Energizer AA Battery- series of cylinders with text on the side
- Key- yellow circle with connected rectangles
- Sword- brown cylinders with almost flat 4 sided polygons as the blade
- Trash can- polygon with as many sides as possible, with the little curved cylinders as the handle
- Cactus- green cylinder with flat green scribbles filled in as leaves
- Bathtub- stretched soft box with curved cylinder as faucet
- Envelope with “M” Seal- Flat white rectangle, sealed with my last initial
1/20 Object: Key
I decided to print the key from my 20 objects. At first when I made it, it was way too small (about 1/3 of the size it is now) but I learned my lesson from printing the moving part too small and scaled it up. My first print was directly from my 20 objects and it came out well, but the design of the key pins looked rather archaic so I redid it. I based the pattern off of my room key and also added the straight indents going down the sides. I like how it turned out.
Moving Parts
For the moving parts I wanted to make a simple hinge. I based it loosely from a design on Thingiverse- some of the comments said that the pieces didn’t fit together, so I made a note to scale the receiving end up a little and it worked fine. On my first attempt, I made it so small that it was almost too thin to print. When I resized it, I attempted to make a fitting cap but it fell off. It’s too small to print on its own without remaking everything (it just makes a blob of plastic) so I left it for now.
Tinkercad Final Project: Lego man
For my final project I decided to make a lego man. I knew my biggest issue would be the moving/detachable parts so I’m moving slowly from the ground up. I looked up the basic shape of lego legs and modeled after that, and then I did 2 test prints of the axis they are to move on; the second one worked by sizing down axis bar by 0.25, so I’m hoping everything else will work as smoothly as the legs do now. Next, I’ll print the body, and design the arms and head.
Fusion 360 Ring Project
Other than getting stuck on the directions a few times, the process went rather smoothly. I did 3 total prints: the first one (in blue) was a little too small for my ring finger, but perfect for my pinky. While I was working, I tried on a ring that someone accidentally left behind and it worked perfectly, so I reprinted my ring in similar dimensions.
I did a fairly simple pattern on mine, drawing a circular shape similar to the examples, and made little craters scattered around it. If I have time later I might try to do a little more creative design with it.
Fusion 360 20 Objects
So far, for my 20 objects I made a: cone, sphere, cylinder, shaved cone, the letter M, circle with a line through it, wedge, pill-shaped thing, wonky M, rectangular prism with a smaller base, random curved shape, cylinder with screw lining, and a pointy cylinder thing.
Fusion was not being cooperative at all. It wouldn’t work on my computer so I tried the browser version, but it became unbearably slow & became glitchy after a while. I tried to transfer my progress onto the library computers but apparently they are not on the same versions, so I was left with a bit of a predicament. Definitely not the best, but an attempt was there.
