Wall-Mounted Stationary Holder

This Project was my Spring final for my 3rd year of Manufacturing Class at Piedmont Hills.

Or at least that's how my teacher tells us to start out. My problem was that I don’t have a place to store my pencils and other long-ish stationary equipment like rulers, scissors, etc. I want to keep them somewhere out of reach from my younger sisters who might hurt themselves with it. So I came up with a list of possible Ideas and scored them based on criteria and constraints with a decision matrix as shown.

Usually, before I go straight to the software, I like to draw out a blueprint of what exactly I have in mind, with measurements, top, side, and other views to get the full picture, kind of like writing instructions I can follow for what I'm about to model in Fusion 360. This is the drawing I came up with. Also, I like using graph paper so that it's more accurate.

My first order of business once I open Fusion is to replicate almost exactly what I just drew on the paper. I have to choose which perspective is the most efficient for this, which happened to by the front view this time.

I now used my other measurements from the blueprint like the top view to go 3D.

I added fillets on all sides facing the user to give it a smoother look, but the backside is still flat so that it fits onto the wall with max efficiency.

The idea behind this project was that the stationary it contains can be kept up high, out of reach of children. The holes on those four tiny flaps can hold screws or nails and be fitted onto a wall at any height.