Idea to Product
I wanted to create a strong, sturdy project that would be able to hold up my phone. While some things I designed didn't work and the size of it was too big. Overall, it works for its purpose and makes a great thing to set my phone on.
Research
In this photo the design is fairly similar to the actual product. When I added dimensions in Inventor it caused the slant of the back side to go away. The elongated circle is there to prevent my phone from sliding of the phone holder. The groove at the bottom is also large enough for the phone to slide in and not move.
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Inventor
These are all of the different angles in Inventor. The dimensions are not shown in most of these pictures but they stayed the same from the sketches. If these pictures are compared to the finished product nothing changed.
Makerbot
All I had to do in Makerbot was adjust the size and somehow get my project back on the bed of the printer. The first picture shows how small and off the bed my project was. However, in the previews pictures the project is back to its intended size and it is also back on the printer bed.
In the printer
It isn't very far in this photo but the overall shape can still be seen. When the printer prints it prints out a base before the object itself. Eventually the printer builds up until it is done. In my case the printer ran out of filament before it could finish. Since there was no more of the turquoise I was using we switched to a light blue for a small portion of the phone holder.
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In use:
Overall, I learned about the different things you can put into a phone holder to make it work. I thought mine was a little big and fitting the cord through can be a little tight. Even looking at my group's phone holders each one was different. In conclusion, you can complete a task with many different possibilities.