I decided to do a coin holder as my family has a big coin jar where we store most of our change so I decided it would be useful to organize that better. I thought I would organize it from the least valuable coin to the most valuable. I intended for this to help our issue with how many coins we have. I also had a visual in my head to make a unique symbol on a slanted platform on the coin holder. I decided to put the Xbox symbol as I like to play video games with my friends fairly often.
I started the project by creating a rough L shape and dimensioned it.
I then drew a line across the part jutting out of the top to cut it into a slanted platform.
I then drew the Xbox symbol and two other circles intended to hold foreign coins.
Then I started on the holes that were made to hold pennies then dimensioned them to fit in a straight line in an orderly fashion.
I then did the same thing but changed the diameter of the coins to a little over the diameter of a nickel as these holes were designed to hold nickels.
|
I then extruded it by five inches.
Then I used extruded the cut triangle in reverse so it would cut the part i wanted out of the coin holder.
I then cut the part I wanted out of the symbol and the circles next to it.
Then I cut the parts that I wanted out of the coin holder. I tried to make the holes as close to going through as possible while making sure they don't go through the coin holder itself.
Then I cut to the same death as I did with the pennies.
|
Now I was truly done working on my coin holder in inventor and good to go to the 3D printer after I got checked off for Makerbot.
I then entered Makerbot and opened my coin holder file from Inventor. Then I scaled the smaller image that was at 100% to 1000% to get it to the right size for printing. I also rotated it until it was laying at its most stable form to print and selected lay flat.
|
I then went to the preview screen to get checked off and once I did I saved the Makerbot file to my flash drive.
|
I plugged it into the machine and started printing.
This is my coin holder printed and holding coins as it was intended to do. As you can see it is holding at least 50 pennies, 40 nickels, 50 dimes, and 40 quarters.
What I learned
I learned in this project how to use the arch line option to create a design, to dimension certain areas to be the same width and length apart from each other, and how to create multiple holes and cuts without going all the way through the object.