Lamp Design

I designed 3D printed panels in Rhino to match the design of my current lamp. The lamp is on my living room, close to the sofa, and its shine can something be bothersome. That is why I decided to design these removable panels that I can place in the lamp when I want to "dim" or obstruct its brightness.

1. Rhino 6
2. Ender 3- 3D printer
3. PLA filament
4. Cura slicer
5. caliper or ruler

1. I am not great taking measurements, this led to many designs that would not fit and/or be way off.
2. The panels would have to bend, particularly on the top to fit beet or have a curve instead of a straight line at the top (longer part of the trapezoid).
3. I wanted to use the program used in assignment 1 to generate the pattern that will be inside the frames, yet it generates to many mashes and does not allow for Boolean operations to be successful. Cura could not slice correctly any of the designs made using the code since the geometries were to complex and had errors with the surfaces (among many, many other errors in the frame structure).
4. The 3D printer did my designs inverse. instead of printing the extruded areas, it was printing the holes.
5. Lastly, I did not took in consideration that each opening in the lamp will have different tolerances hence one piece may fit very well in one opening and not in another.

The panels were design with the idea of being easy to assemble and remove. They have flaps at the sides to be placed from inside of the lamp with the designs looking to the outside.

1. design shape and extrude it 1mm.
2. use array tool to create a rectangular array of the shape.
3. preform Boolean union to all the array of shapes.
4. place array on top of the frame.
5. preform a Boolean slit to "cut" the array pattern as the frame.
6. cap all surfaces that might have been open.
7. preform Boolean Union and export.

nozzle temperature was set in 215 degrees and the speed was increased to 120.