Making the 3D Designs

Hi and welcome to my blog. Here I will be writing down my documentation of making the 3D renderings of my group's chemical device!

At first, we had planned to buy an acrylic cyllinder so all I had to 3D print was a holder of sorts to attach it to the door which is this design I created with a circle and a square and extruded. I later on added a space at the bottom for the components. I used a lto of parametrics for this design as we did not have the materials yet and this was a rough idea.:

Then I changed the design into 2 possible directions. 

1. If we were able to 3d print the handle, I thought that this cyllindrical design would be both practical (UV light would be able to penetrate better) and comfortable (cyllinder design would n=have no sharp edges).

For this design, I made use of a lot of symmetrical extrusions so I made a circle and a rectangle to be the hadle itself and the case then made 2 circles on the perpendicular axis to connect them and made spheres to make the design curved.

I knew that this design would take a very long time to print so I split them into 2 and only printed half of the handle so that the arch would still be circular on both sides as well as being easier to present later on. 

I also added 2 holes at the bottom to put in the proximity sensor.

Here is the design:

2. This design is so that we can laser cut the handle itself as our acrylic is a flat sheet and so I made a "blocky" version of the previous design. I used similar parameters from the previous design and created this using many rectangles.