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Yin Yang clip design

Nancy Rae O’Connor


• 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

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