Drafting Class Final Project (Arclight Yorick related)

farix126·Dec 6, 2017·2 votes·574 views

So, I know I should probably hold this for when I need RP but I enjoyed making it to much to wait. One of my classes this semester had a final project that all we were given as far as instructions was "Create a 3D object you would like to print." So I decided to make Arclight Yorick's Shovel (polearm?) using Autodesk Inventor (the program that class used for everything). Keep in mind this is not necessarily a program meant for being artistic.

https://i.gyazo.com/26bb394b840f277b8f6646ab62e9a99f.png

https://i.gyazo.com/d8e16b81ec294e77315a5bfc0394d0dc.png

https://i.gyazo.com/486f183f46ab026cad1ca5578def85d2.png

This is what I ended up turning in and was curious about y'alls opinions and any suggestion as I am still personal working on fine tuning it.

13 Comments

TerakaliDec 6, 20171 votes

Hey, dude, you, uh...

You have some free time to talk shop? [zombie-brand-mindblown] [sg-ahri-1] [sg-jinx] [sg-shisa]

farix126Dec 6, 20171 votes

Let’s post a new discussion right before going to bed...genius idea by me.

If you happen to still be around I got all day now.

TerakaliDec 6, 20171 votes

So, I've spent a while using autodesk myself, and I have a few technical questions.

1, between the handle and the shovel head you have a surface that bends, curves, and changes thickness. How?

2, how did you get the lines on the handle? Are those drawn on, are they a surface, what?

farix126Dec 6, 20171 votes

Ah, so just for a bit of reference, I only technically designed 1/4th of the entire thing (the left half of the front side) and then mirrored it to get the other 3 sides. So...

that surface between the handle and the head was actually fairly simple. Basically it’s just a fillet at the edge where the head and handle meet. I just adjusted the radius until it meet the furthest edge of the bottom of the head which will make radius variable for all the shorter sections. If you go over that furthest distance though it will go back to normal and either give you an error or fillet things you didn’t want done.
This one I wasn’t sure how I was going to do going into this. The solution I can to was partially thanks to mirroring the entire object. What I did was in the base scetch of the handle I added a very shallow rectangle (.005 X .0625). Then after I did a quarter revolve for the handle (including the little rectangle) I went back and used coil to cut the rectangle for a quarter revolution around the same axis as the handle at a taper that was close to 45 degrees. That gave me one side of the “V” and then mirroring the object of course mirrored it making the other side.

TerakaliDec 6, 20171 votes

Well of course- what else would you do with something symmetrical? Do 4 times the work?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQCeRPqjnuU

Anyway, thank you for the information. That would certainly help.

Have you considered working on actual video games?

farix126Dec 6, 20171 votes

Honestly, my original plan was to do half of it and then mirror that, luckily the program crashing a couple times brought me to my senses.

That was actually my original dream in highschool was to work on games until I learned how annoying coding can be in. So then I drifted towards wanting to be an “engineer” until I finally decided to learn everything between drafting and the final product (as far as 3D printing, CNC, lathe, etc.). Then, this final actually has me thinking about going back to trying for some sort of game design. At the very least I will probably keep making stuff like this in my free time.

TerakaliDec 6, 20171 votes

Well, on that note, do you know the game Hearthstone?

I've spent quite a while designing a card game somewhat similar to it with a League bent, and I'd love to have as many people assisting as possible.

I have most of the game itself worked out, and I could work on coding if we did Javascript, but I suck at visuals and certain aspects of balancing, if you'd be down to help with that.

Speaking of, do you create champions? Excluding adding costs, I'm mostly down to just adding more original cards.

farix126Dec 6, 20171 votes

Yeah I’ve played hearthstone, and that sounds like an interesting idea. I’m not sure I’d be much help though, I have yet to try making a champion. This is probably the most detailed object I’ve made and it took me somewhere around 16 hours of work.

TerakaliDec 6, 20171 votes

Ah, no worries. So, would you be willing to help?

farix126Dec 6, 20171 votes

I’d be willing to give it a shot, what would you be thinking?

TerakaliDec 7, 20171 votes

Okay, can we take this to an instant messaging system? This is getting tedious.

I'm Terakali on League. We can chat there.

Friendly RamDec 7, 20171 votes

What size are you printing it to? I think some paint can make it really shine.

farix126Dec 7, 20171 votes

My design of it was scaled to 4.5 inches tall and 1 7/8th wide at the widest point so will probably be printed to that size. I don't know if the teach may adjust the scale or anything to fit their printer though since they never told me the specifics of what their printer could do. If I had to guess though, it probably won't ever be printed since its rather detailed for what most non-industrial printers can handle.