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3D Printing and Producing Multiples

  • Writer: Melissa Wilson
    Melissa Wilson
  • Feb 16, 2020
  • 2 min read

Here I have drawn up some objects in scale 1:12, I have drawn a wine bottle, beer bottle, food can, beer keg, oil drum, drinks bottle, drinks can, a cup and a plate. This allowed me to scan this drawing and place it into Fusion 360 to use as a template.

Here is the outcome of the translation from paper to compute as a solid object. These objects are going to be my first attempt at 3D printing.

The images below are the outcome of my first 3D print. It has worked very well, with some sanding all the texture left from the 3D print will no longer be visible. This will also need to be done to the bottoms, sanding off the excess to make them sit flat.





To improve my 3D prints, I corrected the scale of the oil drum, beer keg, cup and drinks bottle. I also re-shaped the beer bottle to look more like a beer bottle by thickening the neck and squaring off the body, I also added a lip to the wine bottle as well as the beer bottle. Another addition I wanted to add was to hollow out the oil drum, this way I could add things into it, for example wood and an electrical tea light. This will add lighting into the model as well as atmosphere. Being a large tunnel the area will be large enough to have multiple of these oil drums in different areas.

Some how on the beer keg I have lost the handles, I am not sure to as of why these have disappeared. However, I don't think it matters too much, I can always add them back in if I wanted to. I am going to use these as scattered objects for atmosphere throughout the sewers.

I have decided to not make the drinks/ food cans by 3D printing. Instead to save material and quickly produce them, I have decided to make them out of wooden dowel rods, I will cut the to size and sand them to the shape I need. I am also going to make the plates using a different method however, I have not decided on this yet.


Here are some of the pieces I have 3D printed, I have about 5 x Oil Drums, 5 x Beer Keg, 15 x Wine/ Beer/ Drinks Bottles 20 x Cups

With some sanding to get the finish I want, I then aim to spray paint them to get a base colour and begin adding rust/ aged texture, possibly dents.

 
 
 

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