User:DirkvdM/3D portfolio

Some of the designs I have made so far as a student at 3D Ambacht, a 1 year full-time course in 3D Modelling, including designing, drawing, scanning and slicing. This is just a selection of my drawings. Of course the originals are 3D, these are just screenshots. The drawings are in reverse chronological order.

Often the first assignment for a program was also the first drawing, and sometimes the last. We learned by doing, which suited me fine. Notice that as a result many designs are incomplete. One reason is that one purpose of the course was to learn as many 3D programs as possible, about 20 in the first 3 months.

In 2022 I designed a bicycle parking station for a challenge by Dutch railways, but alas that was not awarded a prize.

Dirk van der Made

Keyring LED light
Own design, an assignment for my internship at Ultimaker. Drawn with Blender. The original purpose of the assignment was to use and test conductive filament, but I always look at the simplest solution first, and that didn't require conductive filament, so I could go ahead with that.



The battery and LED go into the lower cap, with the LED's legs touching the sides of the battery. Then the upper cap is assembled with a twisting motion and the sliding cap slides in at the back, breaking the connection when pushed all the way to the front. When it is pulled back a bit the LED lights up. Attaching it to a keyring prevents it from sliding all the way back out again.



Hikers' stool
Own design. Drawn with Spaceclaim. A hiker's stool with a springy seat. It is held upright by sitting on it. The plates then bend a bit, so the seat gives way. The stick is 20 x 20 mm. The rest is printed. The plates slide into one another with slots.



Sticky tape arm
Own design. Drawn with Spaceclaim. An implement to apply sticky tape at a distance and even around a corner. Not very practical, meant more as an experiment in designing and printing different click-systems. To the right the handle, which clicks into the middle section inside the sticky tape holder. The third section can be attached at different distances, extending up to 40 cm in this layout. The two connections can be fixed at angles that are multiples of 60° and 45° respectively, making for many different possible combinations.



A bit more detail:



Sculpt of Einstein
Sculted with Sculptris, after an image of Einstein. When I started scupting the details in the hair, Scupltris started crashing so often I could alas not continue.



An oldtimer Bentley racing car
Based on a photograph. Drawn with Spaceclaim. For the window pane I used the fact that a plane that is not part of a body is shown semi-transparent.





Caliper
Copied from an actual caliper. Drawn with Tinkercad, an online tool, extremely simple, but surprisingly versatile.



Sphere
A historical moment, my first 3D print! :)



Well, actually, my very first print was a vertical line, 0,4 mm wide, the width of the nozzle. In other words, the print bed just moved down while plastic was extruded.

I like testing what-ifs. One such test was printing a wall one road wide, and then holding the printer on its side and even upside down. The result was better than I expected, although of course the wall eventually started sagging when I held the printer on its side.

House
My very first 3D drawing, for the selection procedure for the study. Drawn with Sketchup.