Chess Bishop 3D Printing Challenge

My name is Felipe Miranda, and I attend Dalton High School in Dalton, Georgia. I was tasked with using Fusion 360 to demonstrate my creativity and technical expertise while building something I'm passionate about. Due to my passion for the game of Chess, I ultimately decided to create a piece for it. I ended up deciding to make a bishop because it's my favorite piece. This design had constraints given by my teacher and the 3D printing challenge.

• You must use Fusion 360.
• Be submitted to my Engineering Teacher before May 19th.
• Has to be 3D printed.
• Show a full understanding of the Engineering Design Process. 

• I used two different Dell laptops
• Fusion 360 software
• My teacher's Ender-5 Pro 3D printer

I was forced to use Fusion 360 (My preferred software anyways). I started off the design by building the base of the piece I ended up making the base using a center point rectangle making it 30x7.518mm. The next step was to make the body of the piece, I started this by making a conic curve on top of the base, 3.5mm away from the edge. My conic curve was 25.973mm, my next step was to make a little crown head. I made a slanted line and made it 4.686mm and made another line from the previous line slanted down being 4.893mm. Next, I made a line from the top of the conic curve being slanted slightly outwards going up 7.046mm, and from the previous line once again I made a line go slightly slanted up 12.1913mm. Finally, I made a line down the middle of the design and revolved it around the center point line.

The last step of the design was to extrude a thin piece in the top crown as all bishop pieces have. I went to the middle of the left side of a crown and made a line 1.573mm wide and made the line go down to the center of the design. I then extruded it all the way through the design giving it the opening bishops have.

I sent the Design to my teacher so it could be printed he scaled it up 200% as I asked him to do so because I believed this would bring the piece more to life.

After the modification process which was simply scaling the size up by 200%, I was finally ready to print my design. I just had to send it to my teacher who printed it for me on his 3d printer and I was able to pick up my 3D print the next day. I can confidently say I'm happy with the way it printed especially in the crown area making it look very similar to a real bishop in chess.

I hope I was able to provide a detailed explanation along with a good design to show my skill in 3D printing and what I've learned over the past two years in my class. It was a fun final project and I hope I was able to make more people interested in chess through my design, and I hope whoever sees my work enjoys it.