When we were assigned to make a puzzle for our tin I immediately thought of making a monogram. I really like the idea of my initials as puzzle pieces on the bottom of my tin. I began in Illustrator and found a font that I enjoyed. After doing the normal steps for text, I placed my initials into the outline of the tin as another layer. Once I followed all the puzzle directions in illustrator I was ready to place them into Tinkercad. But I realized that the line for the 'D' did not have an influence and was not a part of the large puzzle piece. With the help of Ms. Riley and Ms. Dixon I fixed the problem. There were many trial and errors but one night after playing around on Illustrator I created the two separate pieces I wanted and figured out the tolerance of the 'D'. I did this by putting the two pieces into a separate layer, dividing them with path finder and then clicking the inside piece and doing the tolerance one more time. It was a much smoother ride after this bump in road. With the given colors the 3D printer was using, I decided to make the initials white and the outline blue because I think they will contrast well together. Next I saved the initials and outlines separately as SVGs. And following the steps I successfully put them into Tinkercad and then saved each as an .stl. The last step on the computer was to scale and slice each in Cura. I learned that when using Cura you have to have patience. I then saved both as gcodes and moved them into the SD card. I had left my puzzle on the SD card in class so when I came next class it would be printed. However, I had made a mistake on my files and it printed with a brim and the size was larger than the tin. What I did was, I went into Tinkercad and scaled my files again with the right scale numbers by creating a rectangle around each and reading those measurements. I saved each as an .stl again an imported them separately into Cura and changed the Build Plate Adhesion type to skirt, which is just a line connecting around when the puzzle is being printed, instead of a thing boarder connected to the pieces. Repeating the Cura steps with correct scale, I was able to save both as gcodes and place them into an SD card to be printed. Now I am just waiting for my puzzle to be printed!
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