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Ceramic 3D Print

Concept Sketch:
Trying to combine our (Adam, Siwon, and Erica's) original object and our new group members (Amanda and Ri's) design, was quite confusing at first. We realized that Amanda and Ri's design doesn't work with the ceramic 3-D print as the base of the design, along with how their design all meet together at a very sharp point. With our design, the rings hanging off the design wouldn't work with the clay either. We all liked the way Adam and Siwon's design faded together really well, so each of us sketched out one design where it blended both objects together in different ways. We ended up having similar ideas of adding the egg-shaped at the bottom and keeping the fade between Adam and Siwon's design.
          

Rhino 6 files:
Merging similar parts of sketches, we decided to create it in Rhino to visually see if our post In some of the screenshots, in the background are the trial and errors of the design. We had to rebuild our initial designs as separate parts before putting them together as one big design. Initially, we place together Siwon's diamond-cut design, and Amanda and Ri's egg design together. We decided to try and include the rings from our original design to give it more structure after our first attempt. Thinking logically, we had to include the rings in a way that would hold up with a ceramic printer, so we decided to cut the rings in half and stack them together. 









Slic3r file:
We decided to cut a bit of the bottom from the lower layer of the ring, and stretch the design vertically by 125% so that the rings would stack nicely and won't collapse during the 3D print. We had to go back into MeshMixer to smooth our parts of the rings. This is the final digital design before we print.
Ceramic Print:
This is how our object came out. The first version of our print didn't fully work, it ended up "crashing" mid-print so we had to restart. Throughout the printing process, the clay kept caving in near the bottom where the egg-shaped parts were so we had to add a fan to harden the print without it collapsing. Near the end, the print started printing the object really oddly, because it printed Siwon's diamond cut base then connecting Adam's piece separately. But in the end, the print turned out pretty well the diamond-cut parts really showed up in the end, more than I expected. Can't wait to see the ceramic print after it's glazed and fired!







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