I finally completed my nametag! I had a lot of fun in Tinkercad, I found it easy to use while still allowing for a wide range of creations. At first, I did not like how you had to grab the little cube in the top left corner to navigate around the space, but once I found the shortcut of holding control and grabbing the screen, my navigation became much more efficient. Although I did not use it for my final design, I had a lot of fun with the draw tool. Here are some of the other nametags I brainstormed using the draw tool:
Eventually I landed on a clapperboard for my nametag, and I created that in Tinkercad. I was of course inspired by my love for horror movies and wanted to make something to honor that. I wanted to use a more interesting font than what they had to offer so I had to do some research on how to import fonts into Tinkercad. At first the sites I was looking at were telling me to use these other installed applications but that got supper complicated. I ended up finding a site called text2STL that allowed you to type something, chose a font, and then download that as an STL file to upload to Tinkercad. They even had an option to upload your own font, so I found a horror movie looking font that was still readable and translatable into 3D and uploaded it. I was happy with the results and that I was able to find a way to customize the font on my own. Here was the final design:
Next it was time to print. I did my 3D printing training with Rusul and felt pretty confident, but I was still a bit nervous going in. I was kind of worried I would like break the printer somehow or mess up my whole thing and not be able to complete it. Luckily, neither of those happened, and my print I was able to print successfully! I had to add stops on mine to change the colors and I was able to do that, but it was kind of a tedious process, I am maybe wondering if there is a quicker way to determine where you want your print to pause. I also added supports, but I think my design definitely did not need them, so it just made it kind of difficult to clean up at the end. Overall, I am super happy with the final print, it is the perfect size, and I think it looks really cool. Here is the final name tag!!!!:
