Enchanted Objects Design Challenge - Windows 10

12 Jun 2015

Matilda does not see the light

When Matilda tested the temperature status LED it was clear that it was not going to be visible from outside the cottage. The dark cottage interior sapped away the struggling coloured lumens. However, Matilda spotted that the LED was positioned right opposite the fake painted window on the front of the cottage.

If that could be replaced with a real window then the LED would be clearly visible. Now some people when thinking about new windows would be looking at curtain material and lace edging. Matilda was not that sort of a person, she was thinking about how best to smash a hole the front wall. Matilda donned her safety glasses and removed the flower box to provide access. She drilled a hole in each corner and then used a cutting disk to join up the sides. Finally the edges were trimmed up to give a clean hole. Matilda was happy with the job.

New Windows

Matilda designed some new frames using OpenSCAD and these went through many iterations. The early versions barely looked like Windows at all and an alternative design for Windows 8 was terrible so she returned to a conventional design and Windows 10 turned out ok. She sent the designs off to the blacksmith to be assembled.

Frame source: https://github.com/Workshopshed/EnchantedObjects/blob/master/Mechanics/WindowFrame.scad

Frame model: https://github.com/Workshopshed/EnchantedObjects/blob/master/Mechanics/WindowFrame.stl

Printing

Remarkably the windows printed correctly first time and the best of the two examples was installed using contact adhesive.

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mcb1 over 10 years ago

A handy reason to buy a 3D printer ...

I'm still resisting because I just know that the time spent in the design, etc will eclipse the savings made in construction.

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Workshopshed over 10 years ago in reply to mcb1

Yes, I could have easily made these out of match sticks in less time than it took me to design and print them. However I am getting better at the OpenSCAD and can put some quite sophisticated shapes together quite quickly. I think the key advantages of the printer are when you have to make a lot of something or when you've got a complex shape such as the fibre housing, that would have been tricky with conventional methods because of the little holes and need to avoid the debugging socket.

I was very happy to get an email the other day telling me that one of my other models had been adapted by someone. http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:728871/#remixes
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mcb1 over 10 years ago in reply to Workshopshed

I could have easily made these out of match sticks in less time than it took me to design and print them

See I was correct.

I think the key advantages of the printer are when you have to make a lot of something or when you've got a complex shape

Can't argue with that one.
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mcb1 over 10 years ago in reply to Workshopshed

I could have easily made these out of match sticks in less time than it took me to design and print them

See I was correct.

I think the key advantages of the printer are when you have to make a lot of something or when you've got a complex shape

Can't argue with that one.
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