The challenge with Sheets is the "floating" cells - the parts of the graphic version which have no connection to the solid parts. It turned out the Docs logo was the simplest by far. That folded corner part is the same - and the dimensions are the same - so I just closed up the holes in that model and started there. I used the Docs logo model as the starting point. In fact, anyone who knows me is shocked that I didn't do Sheets first (since that's where my history with Google products all started.) but, honestly, when I started modeling and printing, I only had blue PLA filament - so I had to wait for green before doing Sheets ) Once I created the Google Docs Logo model, it seemed it would simple to move on to the sibling product logos for Google Sheets, Forms and Slides.
That said, Staples has nothing to worry about ) But then, it wouldn't have been mine (well, my son's), and I wouldn't have learned a darn thing. Something that I could have bought at Staples for a few bucks. My pencil cup (well, my son's pencil cup). I took a risk and let this print overnight - and by the morning, there it stood. The print was by far the longest so far - 8 hours and 38 minutes. I then repeated a similar, but slightly different set of diamonds for the bevels and the side walls of the cup. That left the diamond pattern you see on the front face. I then sunk them into the face of the cup so they were sticking out the front and through the back of that front wall - the "Subtract"ed them (that is a command in 123D which is by far the most useful thing in my projects so far). I positioned all the squared equal distance from each other and lined them up to be on the same plane. I took a simple small square, turned it 45 degrees to make it look like a diamond, then duplicated it a bunch of times. So I began making a grid of shapes that I would "subtract" from the face and sides, to make it more like a mesh. I also put a diamond shaped hole at the back in case this cup needed to hang on a nail or hook (I think of everything, 12% of the time). It is also beveled at the top to avoid any overhangs which might not print nicely. Then I adjusted the back to be 4mm (by "pull"ing the back face) so that I would have additional area for an indent in the back to hold magnetic strips. I'm finding that feature to be most useful - you select the face of the object you want to "shell" and then adjust the width of the remaining walls. Then I extruded that as a solid - 100 mm high - and then used the "Shell" command in Autodesk 123D Design - which hollows out any shape. First, I drew the bottom shape - a rectangle, basically, 30mm deep and 70mm wide, with clipped front corners to give it a bit of design. I wanted to avoid making it a simple hollowed out half cylinder (flat side to hang on the locker or wall), so I designed it from scratch. This post tells a bit more about how it was made. This was an idea my 8th grade son had - something he needed - so I took on this not-so-challenging challenge. My biggest 3D Printing project so far - a 100mm tall pencil holder which can be hung on the inside of a school locker (or stood up on a desk).
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