Designing for 3D Printing

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been designing a complex animal model for a magazine article and thought I’d share some of the things I’ve discovered along the way. Organic Shapes I tried to design the main body of my
Dodo Walk

I’ve been experimenting with Fusion360 and linked joints to help with the design of the Dodo Automata. Back to Basics I quite like how this is progressing but something did not look quite right. So I looked back to my
Thumbscrews, knurls and threads

This weekend I was designing some parts using Fusion360. I had a couple of challenges but learnt a lot along the way. The part I wanted to model was a thumbscrew which I’m going to be using in a future