Utopian.io Keychain on Thingiverse!
Utopian.io has many awesome things going on but I felt one thing was missing, a 3d printed Utopian.io Logo / Keychain :-)
In this Tutorial I will show how I created the Utopian.io keychain and my plans to promote and advertise utopian.io to 3d designers on Thingiverse.com
Design in Fusion 360
After checking with @elear first that he is fine me using the utopian.io logo, I created an SVG image in Affinity designer in order to use it as a sketch in Fusion360. Fusion has great sketch capabilities but for more curvy shapes I still prefer a vector program.
With the Utopian.io .svg file ready, I imported the sketch in a 5x7cm box which I seems to be a good size for the keychain.
The next step was to Extrude the various shapes. Since I had to connect to inner circle with something I extruded a thin floor. The remaining Logo parts have been Extruded higher. The final result including beveled edges looks like this.
The final part in Fusion 360 was to add a 4mm whole for the keychain. I added another sketch on the Logo surface and added the whole to the position I thought looks best.
3d Print
Time for 3d printing the part. I exported the Utopian.io keychain as .stl file to my desktop and imported it to the Slic3r Software in order to send it to the printer. As you see in below gif, a 3d print is done in layers and is interesting to watch how it is building up.
Print on Prusa
Model on Thingiverse for Utopian.io promotion
The model is now uploaded on Thingiverse and will hopefully attract new users to visit Utopian.io and Steemit.com. I have added shortener links to Utopian and Steemit so that I can track how many Thingiverse users have actually clicked on the links. A stats summary will follow next month in a separate post.
Thank you and all the best!
Great post and awesome keychain. I love this idea of planting a seed on another website to get people to say, what is this? Really cool.
One question how do you track the stats on the links? Is that built into the thingiverse website.
Ivam glad you like it. I am using short linjs from Google analytics to see how many users clicked the link. Thingiverse itself doesn't have this build in.
Awesome work man ! So thingiverse is a sight for sharing 3D prints for free ? That is pretty near
Yes it is. It is worth having a look as you can find countless awesome designs from vey talented people for free.
If you have a 3D printer that is probably a god send. When I move back to Sweden I will have a 3D printer . Actually it's my dads but I am sure he will let me use it hehe
great art @tarekadam.Thanks for sharing. i like your post and following.
Awesome, I am glad you like it.
Thanks @tarekadam.
Very good suggestion from you. Hopefully more success for the future. Thanks for sharing @tarekadam.
Thank you.
You are welcome.
its really great work u expert in it i like this type of making designing but i dont know about it i saw ur post 4 month ago i think ur small son is also interested in this work with u @tarekadam
Yes, my son love designing 3d related things as well :-)
Good job bro,,,
great art @tarekadam......
I liked.......... Thanks for these
Fantastic post.
@tarekadam.
Thanks for sharing.
i like your post and following.
So dope.man ,I would love to try my graffiti letters on this thing. 😉
Finally the missing part has been found by you :D
Great it looks such a nice contribution from your side looks really awesome
Thank you very much!
3d printing is future in most parts of our life