Notre Dame 3D Printing Club

Michaela's keychain about a youtube channel and Arian's keychain from an anime character.

Brady designed a logo for a major Canadian bank.

Anika did a great job on a Bayhawks Soccer logo for her team!

Here is Asia's green robot and Meghan's blue maple leafs key chain.

A capital "E" keychain from Emily and a skateboard from Tyler.

The Strati car printed out with a lot of "junk" plastic inside for some reason. After hollowing it out, it doesn't look so bad. All ready to be presented to our auto teacher. The auto class will have to glue it together!

Local Motors has made the plans for the Strati car available for free online. Here is the body in red about halfway through the print at 0.75% of original size.  Click here if you want to find out more about the full size 3d printed car.

You can draw curves and curved objects in sketchup by installing the bezier curve extension. Here are some examples of what you can do with this tool: If you want this functionality at your school computer, ask me and I can log in as an administrator for the download and install. Step 1: Download the bezier curve extension Step 2: Launch Sketchup Step 3: Go to Window->Preferences Step 4: Select Extensions Step 5: Choose Install Extensions Step 6: Locate the rbz file you downloaded in step 1

Matt has a remote-controlled airplane and wanted to change out the motor, so he designed this mount to accommodate the new motor. His initials are even printed on the side of it. Ingenious!

Great multicoloured transformers logo from Colin.

We really like video games in our club! These were designed by students and printed out this week. Legend of Zelda mask from James. Assassin's Creed video game logo from Jason.

Some student work from early October.. Daniel is at it again this time with a tank Jason's Portal key chain, Katie's "Blues Clues" key chain.

It's a little early for snow but Steven designed an awesome snowflake in blender. We printed it in two colours, stopping the printer after it finished the base switching from blue to white.

This tutorial is on how to make a logo eychain with all straight edges in Google Sketchup . Step 1: File->Import image of your choice. (Make sure the file type matches) Step 2: Click at the origin and then type in 400mmx400mm and press enter This will give you a 4cmx4cm keychain Step 3: Select the Line tool and trace all around the object until it closes and creates a face. If it doesn't create a solid face then something went wrong, try again. Step 4: Select the Push/Pull tool and click on the face of your object. Step 5: Drag it up until it shows about 5mm thickness in the bottom right of the screen. Step 6: Use the Select tool and select the graphic, press "delete" on the keyboard That's it!

We found a hub cap top on thingiverse to replace the one on Matt's car.

Daniel in grade 9 designed this cool spaceship in blender 3d software and we printed it out!

If you make something in Blender, it needs to be "cleaned up" before we can 3d print the object. Netfabb is supposed to be excellent for this purpose. There is a copy of Netfabb in X:/Computer Services/Mikitzel for installation Here is a video of how to clean up a file for 3d printing using Netfabb Basic

Here are prototypes for key chains for our school tuck shop. As I type this the green plastic just came in! (stay tuned for progress) Link to the obj files . Feel free to print and share.

Take a look at a tutorial on how to make a 3d key chain out of a png graphic! We are going to try and make a Notre Dame key chain we can sell at the Shamrock to buy more plastic for the 3d printer. The arc tool is very useful, see a tutorial here

We have a mascot that was printed on the 3D printer! Come see it in room 134. The joints in the arms and legs are articulated and the head turns as well. walking on a desk just hangin' around

This is a replica of a statue in La Place de la Republique in Paris, France. It was printed in 4 parts and was presented to Notre Dame's french club!

This statue of Jesus was printed during the demonstration of the 3d printer for curriculum night. It was a hit with the parents!

Looks like google sketchup is better suited for 3d printing. It is easy to use too. Here is a great first tutorial about 3d printing with google sketchup. Our school 3D Printer is the Makerbot Replicator 2. Here is the makerbot official blog with all posts tagged for google sketchup.

We started looking at resources for 3d printing using Blender.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIAO1zS6oGY http://hackaday.com/2014/01/03/3d-printering-making-a-thing-in-blender-part-i/ We found out that Blender is probably overkill for 3d printing, Something simpler like Google Sketchup does a great job and is used by many people with 3d printers. Some of you already know a fair amount about Blender. so keep using it if you like!