My Steemit Ornament won me a 3D Printer !

pbock (60)in #design3d • 7 years ago

I've been ecstatic since learning that I was one of the 3 winners of the 3D MyMiniFactoryXVectary design competition 2 days ago, and now I finally know which prize I won !

My Steemit snowflake Christmas decoration here won me 2nd place of the competition:

What isn't visible in any of the pictures on MyMiniFactory is that the old steemit logo is on the backside of the snowflake as an insert !

There's a slight problem in which model MyMiniFactory chose to feature as one of the winners in the competition:

and which one was featured by Vectary, the people who organized the competition (The Steemit Christmas deco)

But in any case, Vectary's article does do some marketing for Steemit too, doesn't it ? ;)

I'm going to be SO excited to receive my MakeX MIGO 3D printer !

#print3d #steemit #competition #life

7 years ago in #design3d by pbock (60)

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justatouchfey (60) 7 years ago

Congrats on your win!

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pbock (60) 7 years ago

Thanks :)

I'm currently playing with the idea of creating a Steemit/SPN signet ring for 3D printing.

Going through some tutorials using (Onshape)[https://www.onshape.com/], seems like it could be an interesting tool to design stuff in going forward (While I wait to get a new computer and get my hands on Fusion 360 XD).

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justatouchfey (60) 7 years ago

Oh yeah, that would be awesome. I bet if you did that you could submit it through @Utopian-io to get rewards for it. The devs at Steempunk are awesome for celebrating and helping get recognition for contributions.

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pbock (60) 7 years ago

That could be an interesting idea :)

I honestly haven't really looked into what Utopian is, other than knowing it's a system to reward open-source project contributions.

I'll look into how to do that once I get the design finished.

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lextenebris (62) 7 years ago

Be careful with ring designs, because of the way that you inevitably need to structure things, you end up needing supports on at least a few places. Unless you design it with a flat face which faces down against the bed, and you use a material which is really good at bridging like PLA can be.

Or you use a printer which isn't FDM. The sintering printers like Shapeways uses are great for things like rings and other designs which require consistent support during the printing process, because there held up by successive layers of powdered plastic which has not been heated into fusion by the laser.

Those are some pricey printers, however, and we are probably not going to have them on our desktops. Though they do exist!

Jewelry design has a huge, huge following in the 3D printing community if you go digging. The flexibility of being able to specify a given shape for a particular use is a big deal for some folks and that segment in particular is pushing a lot of the desktop metal printing development that you see going on.

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dksart (63) 7 years ago

Nice design, congrats :)

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pbock (60) 7 years ago

Thanks, I didn't spend too much time on the simple snowflake design, but the Steemit one took a few tries to have a good base to inlay and extrude the two logos from.

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