Overall dimensions: 1.25cm height and 6cm in length.
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updated March 5, 2023

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Constraints: 

  • All coins must be made from an initial revolve resulting in a coin that is 6cm in diameter and 1.25cm in thickness.
  • Must not require ANY supports, (no supports).
  • Should be gear-esque in nature.
  • NO moving parts, (no gyroscopes, fidget spinners, etc.)
  • Must slope downwards towards the center in some fashion.

 

General Advice:

For anyone making their own Maker Coin I would advise to take advantage of the circular patterns tool. It makes things much much easier rather than doing it one at a time. 

 

 

Design Choices:

The first change I had to make was the gap in between the logo in the middle. I had to make this change in order to make it easier on the 3d printer allowing it to print without messing up. I changed it from .1cm to .2cm.

 

Another change I made was to make the gaps bigger on the outside. At first I had it at 1cm but when I did that for the other two I didn’t like the design. That led me to changing it to 1.4cm.

 

 

Along with that gap change I also decided to make the connecting part wider. At first it was 1cm but then I decided to change it to 1.3cm.
 


 

 

I also decided to filet most of the edges on my Maker Coin. At first I was reluctant to do this because I wanted it to look sharp and clean but once I tried out the filleted look I really liked it. I kept the edges on the opening and the logo in the middle sharp because I felt like they needed that sharp edge.
 

 

 

 

I also decided to add this blade like extrude on my Maker Coin. At first I had no space to put the blade there but once I changed the gap to 1.3cm instead of 1 it allowed me to have the .2cm gap between the jutting out part of the blade and the side of the connection part.

 

At the end I also decided to add in the words around the open spaces on my Maker Coin. It filled up the empty space giving it an overall cleaner look.


 

When getting my Maker Coin reviewed to see if it was good enough to print, I was told that the side of my Maker Coin had too much of an arch. This would lead to overhangs in my Maker Coin which we did not want. In order to fix this I had to adjust how deep my arch went.


 

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