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welcome back so today I'm going to show
you how to make your own holiday
decorations using a 3D printer but
before we get into it I just want to
thank SolidWorks and the 3D experience
SolidWorks for makers platform for
sponsoring this video so I'm going to
show you how you can make a flat pack
ornament using X design and then I'll
show you a few other designs that I've
made using a similar method now the idea
here is that when the holidays are over
you can take these decorations apart and
then they flatten down for easier
storage so basically you have two halves
where one of them has a divot and the
other has this matching indentation so
you can slide the two pieces together
and they click into place and for the
rest of the ornament I'm thinking about
three inches across and I'm gonna go the
stripe design sort of like a candy cane
now to make this I have 3D experience
SolidWorks for makers X design which is
fully cloud-based so you don't need to
worry about whether or not your computer
can run a CAD program and you can just
access your files from any browser so
I'm going to start off by making two
circles that are three inches across
also I'm gonna make sure that they're
equidistant across the origin which will
be important later first I'm gonna make
the clipping mechanism that holds them
together and then the design so that we
have a base that can be customized
however you want all right so first I'm
going to draw a line from the center of
one Circle down to the bottom to make
the middle of the slot where the two
halves will meet now this just needs to
be a little bit bigger than the
thickness of each half since I'm going
with three millimeter ornaments I'm
going to make the slot 3.2 millimeters
just to account for any tolerances when
printing now this might be a tight fit
depending on your printer but I've done
some testing and I know that I have
about 0.15 to 0.2 millimeters for the
tolerance of mine but 3D printing is all
about iteration so you should definitely
test it and see what you can get from
yours now that I have the first slot I
can just go ahead and repeat that exact
same process just on the top half of the
other Circle and then I can go ahead to
making the actual clipping mechanism
that holds these together now this might
be a little confusing but once you see
it and like how the shapes come together
it does make a little bit more sense so
for the first half I'm going to make a
rectangle that's three millimeters tall
centered right at the top of the slot
and then another rectangle that's 3.25
millimeters tall above that and on the
other Circle I'm going to extend the
slot down by 1.25 millimeters below the
center of the circle then I'll make two
0.35 by 1.25 millimeter rectangles
inside the slot
and I'm just going to make sure that
they're 2.5 millimeters away from the
center of the circle and not the
extension that I just added
this should give us the basic geometry
of how these two have slide and clipped
together now all we need to add aside
from the actual design is some way to
hang this so I'm just going to make a
seven by three millimeter rectangle at
the top and then offset that by 1.5
millimeters to make a slot for a ribbon
and now that I have the basic shape I
can just go ahead and extrude that three
millimeters before moving on though I'm
just going to add a chamfer to the
middle part of the left Circle so
there's kind of a ramp when the two
halves come together and on the other
side I'm going to add some fillets to
round over those bumps so that it's
easier to slide them past the chamfers
that we just made and like I mentioned
earlier this is all of my iteration I
did not get these numbers right on the
first try it took a few iterations the
first version was just a bit too tight
and didn't fit together fully so one
piece broke the second version fit
together but the bottom wasn't flush and
that just bothered me a little bit and
the third version fit perfectly together
but the hanging point was too low so I
ended up having to raise that so it
wasn't covered by the second half of the
ornament now that we have a mechanism
that lets these two halves slide and
clip together we can make the actual
design and feel free to be as creative
as you want here like make something
crazy but like I mentioned earlier I'm
just gonna make a simple stripe design
kind of like a candy cane to start with
I'm just gonna make a sketch on the top
of the circles and project the geometry
so that I have that as a reference then
I'm going to draw some lines and get a
good layout for one half of the first
circle now that I have something I like
I'm just going to draw some construction
lines down the middle of each circle and
then one that's halfway between the two
of them this is just going to let me
mirror the design that I already made
across the rest of my ornament so that
if I made any tweaks to the first
version the rest are automatically
updated and I wouldn't have to modify
them all individually which is why I did
that first step of centering the circles
on the origin it just made this go a
little bit quicker and also it's easier
to update the design if I want to change
something later on now I can just
extrude cut the patterns from my
ornament and it's ready to print out but
before I do that I'm going to take a sec
to thank the sponsor of this video
SolidWorks with their 3D experience
SolidWorks for makers platform which
includes X design that I've been using
here for a fully cloud-based experience
X shape for more organic modeling and a
ton of other tools including a full
version of SolidWorks that you can
install locally all for 9.99 a month or
99 a year there will be a link down
below the like button for 20 off when
you first buy it personally I really
like cloud-based CAD especially with how
well X design runs on my iPad being able
to pinch to zoom and rotate around my
mod just feel so much more natural and
intuitive also if I'm working out of
like a coffee shop there's usually Wi-Fi
and this is much more portable as
opposed to my full laptop now I ended up
printing this on the prusa mini in a
nice dark green and proto-passas glitter
red and they both look great especially
when I use one of each color for this
dual tone ornament and since these print
flat as two halves they're relatively
quick so each one on the mini took just
over an hour I also ended up using the
AMS on the bamboo lab X1 to make a
version that's actually candy cane
colored with some hatchbox white and
that same Proto pasta glitter red and
like I mentioned earlier once you get
the tolerances down you can flat pack
pretty much anything so I made this
triangular kind of icicle inspired
ornament along with a version that has
no top and bottom layers so you get this
really cool pattern from the visible
infill and I also found a snowflake
online and adapted it to my design which
looks really cool especially with the
little red accents that I added using
the AMS but moving away from the
ornaments I also made this little tree
along with a stand for it overall this
is a really fun way to make your own
holiday decorations using a 3D printer
if you make something cool of your own
please do tag me I'd love to see it and
if you want to print out any of the
designs I showed in this video they'll
all be on printables with links down in
the description also whether you use
SolidWorks experience for makers or
another CAD platform you should
definitely check out their made in 3D
online community which is a great way to
connect with other makers share your
work learn some tips and tricks and just
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