Celtics Logo

(summary cont.) With the Eastern Conference Finals being extended to game 6, what better time to show your support for the Boston Celtics? This plate is 14 cm x 13 cm. The assembly is simple, print the plate separate as well as the clover in the center. Print out all the letters together and place them into the plate. It should take a little bit of force.

Project Requirements: (I did not work with any teammates/team

1. Pick a Team Name and make a Teamname folder in the Student Work folder for this project on GoogleDrive. The name should be an amalgamation of either your first names, last names, or one person’s first name and the other’s last name. For example, Ms. Das and Mr. Tessier could be “Dassier”.

1. Make a planning document in your team folder. Decide on 3-4 potential images as inspiration for your project. Use a Google drawing to put multiple images together or add text in custom fonts using screenshots from site like www.dafont.com

1. Meet with your instructor to get your design approved. (Have your designs ready in order of preference)

1. To maximize the size of your project, scale these images using the following method (show your work!!!):
   1. Insert image into your Planning Document
   2. Crop the image as closely as possible
   3. Use the top ruler to measure your length and width dimensions and convert to cm
   4. Find your area in cm2 (Area = length times width)
   5. Find your “Area Scaling Factor” (ASF)  
      1. ASF = 225cm2 / (Current Area) cm2
   6. Find your “Dimension Scaling Factor” (DSF)
      1. DSF = ASF
      2. Multiply each of your original length and width dimensions in inches by your DSF

1. Create a Google Drawing in your team folder and copy/paste your image in. Save as a .jpg into your team folder as well.

1. Create Your Solidworks Model:
   1. Create a square/rectangle/circle that matches your scaled dimensions that you calculated using your “Dimension Scaling Factor” (DSF). This shape should be 1cm thick.
   2. Change the appearance of the top face to your .jpg image
      1. Make sure you select “all image files” as the file type when finding your image
      2. When selecting your .jpg, Solidworks will ask you to save the .p2m file somewhere. It doesn’t like doing this on Google Drive, so choose the “Documents” folder.
      3. Then make a copy of that .p2m file in your project folder in case you need to switch computers.
   3. Trace your image using lines, arcs, splines, text, etc.

Use offset geometry to create separation cuts creating the different parts we will use. This process will look different depending on what your source image looks like.

1. Create the “dish” for your parts by offsetting the outer geometry.

1. Once you begin creating your models, you and your partner will work independently of each other in the beginning. We will then evaluate how the process is going and determine how to split up our collaboration time.

1. Each person will submit their completed Solidworks file AND .3mf file at the end of the project.

Design Process:

The first change I made was switching from the bulls logo to the Celtics logo. I wanted to do the Chicago bulls because I think they have the coolest logo, but switched to the Celtics because they are my hometown team and are still in the playoffs. When I was sketching the Celtics logo, I used all lines for the letters and I found that the end result was too blocky. The letters didn't look natural and it was pretty ugly. I decided to try using arcs for the corners of the C's and the S and it looked a lot better. Another design change I had to make was the offset dimensions. I originally printed the plate and letters with the offset dimension of the sketches being 0.2cm. We found that after printing it with this dimension, the letters and clover were not able to fit into the baseplate and realized we didn't make the offset big enough to fit the pieces. After some difficulties of changing the offset to 0.4cm, this issue was fixed.