• Design proposal • Initial ideas and sketch model exploration • Technical drawings Table of contents • CAD render • 3D print development • Final 3D printed model • Further improvements and modifications Design proposal What does it do? -Quick release, with ease, for very frequent use, sometimes quite rough use -Used to help user attach and detach the product (bumbag) from their body Who is it for? -Designing for Eastpak as they have their standardised clips which they use across the boards (for many of their products) and just scale these clips up or down so that they are in proportion with the products they are being used on E.G Bum bag-relatively small Shoulder bag – much larger -Eastpak, Bumbag quick release clip What plastic would it be produced from? - Ideally ABS or polypropylene but for 3D printed model will be using PLA How will constraints and opportunities of the process of injection moulding inform your design? -Need to consider draft angles, wall thickness, witness/split lines Initial sketch model development
• I have included some images
of my very initial stages of sketch modelling. Looking at how simple shapes can fit and clip together. I developed this further on the next slide, where I have looked further at interlocking shapes and settled on the yin yang design. Choosing to develop that as my final idea. Further sketch model development • Developing the yin yang design further, I looked at ways in which the design could fit and then clip together and how the quick release mechanism would work. After several iterations of simple sketch models, I decided to go back and look at other existing two part clips and incorporate elements of those into my design. Allowing me to make a two-part clip design which makes it more of a feature of the product it is a part of e.g bum bag Sketches showing elements of the final design and how it would function 3D print development • With each iteration of my design, I made slight modifications in order to reach my final design
• The modifications I was making was so that I
could get the clip to function as it would if it were injection moulded from a polymer as opposed to 3D printing Final 3D Printed model • The two pieces successfully fit together and I have managed to meet the goals I set myself at the start of the project • If the model were to be injection moulded, there would be standard draft angles (2.5mm), however as I have 3D printed my model, I have added 0.5mm fillets to the edges just so I can get an idea of how the design would function • I found that I had some difficulty as 3D printed PLA reacts differently to injection moulded polymers. There was much less flex in the material which caused some of my initial models to break. • Some of the modifications I have made to my design have improved it for 3D printing, however I would like to increase certain dimensions if I were to produce it at a larger scale, using injection moulding Further improvements and modifications • Adjusting tolerances: I would adjust some of the tolerances of my design. More specifically I would scale up the female part of my clip as currently the fit is a little bit loose • My design would work significantly better if it were injection moulded polypropylene