{"id":1364,"date":"2018-02-28T17:16:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T17:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekhaus.com\/3Dworld\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2018-04-30T00:49:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T00:49:39","slug":"running-closer-and-closer-to-election-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekhaus.com\/3Dworld\/maps-of-america\/running-closer-and-closer-to-election-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Running Closer and Closer to Election Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Weekly Update<\/h1>\n

For this week we finalized the setting in TinkerCAD for the Trump vs. Clinton election to get the print that we were looking for, we were finally able to include Alaska and Hawaii in the final print as well. We also came up with a\u00a0Project Timeline\u00a0<\/em>and Project Pitch for the remainder of the semester, loacated towardds the bottom of the page.<\/p>\n

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We started test printing our volume maps as well.\u00a0 We made a total of two prints.\u00a0 The first print was not at all what we were looking for and very little differences between the states could be seen. This map was not sturdy at all and some of the states were to thin to be be able to transport anywhere. In the picture below you can see that Montana did not print and that is because it was too thin to stay together when it came off the printer.<\/p>\n

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For the second print we made the values five times larger than the original so that we could avoid the problems that the we encountered in the first print.\u00a0 This map came out a lot better and a lot more stable. We also decided to keep the skirt that is optional in Ultimaker Cura, the software used to get prints ready to send to the printer.\"\"<\/p>\n

The image above is our TinkerCAD<\/a> product before we exported it to Ultimaker Cura to begin the print process.\u00a0 This print can be found on Austin’s TinkerCAD<\/a> account. We continued to use the state shapes from the\u00a0Community Featured Shape Generator<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Project Timeline<\/h1>\n