{"id":483,"date":"2019-09-05T13:26:47","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T20:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saccade.com\/blog\/?p=483"},"modified":"2019-12-28T18:35:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T02:35:33","slug":"model-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saccade.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/model-the-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Lesson Learned: Model the Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On a recent trip I picked up a art-glass marble for my wife. She liked it so much she bought a nice lighted display stand for it. The stand wasn’t designed to display that particular marble though, so it didn’t work too well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This was a problem easily solved with a bit of 3D printing. I figured it’d be trivial to make an adapter ring for the marble to sit securely on. However, when I examined the stand, I discovered the LEDs were flush with the base, and likely to get in the way. The marble needed to be held up above them. Before starting on the adapter, I did a simple model of the stand, so I could check everything cleared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With the stand and LEDs modeled, I could verify my design properly fit. The project worked great, and fit perfectly with the first print. Success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next CAD project I did was a stand for a screwdriver set I purchased. I carefully measured the handle and the various blades, but (perhaps over-confident) didn’t bother to model them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It wasn’t until I got the print back I discovered a major ergonomic fail: You can’t easily reach the handle because the blades are in the way! Had I taken the time to actually model the blades and handle, I would have visualized this immediately, and chosen another layout. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moral – it’s a good idea to model the whole environment, not just the piece you’re printing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On a recent trip I picked up a art-glass marble for my wife. She liked it so much she bought a nice lighted display stand for it. The stand wasn’t designed to display that particular marble though, so it didn’t work too well. This was a problem easily solved with a bit of 3D printing. read more »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3d","tag-3d","author-jp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saccade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saccade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saccade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saccade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saccade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/saccade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":639,"href":"https:\/\/saccade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saccade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saccade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saccade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saccade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}