Flavia’s Thoughts

My name is Flavia, and I’m in 5th grade. In the first week of “3D Camp” (Industrial Design, really) there wasn’t too much 3D printing as much as designing what will be printed. First, we learned how to design our own business cards on Adobe Illustrator
CS5. Here’s how you make a business card, or any design on Adobe Illustrator for that matter.

First, we got to know the tools. There’s the shape tool, select tool, pathfinder, direct select tool, pen tool, paintbrush tool, eyedropper tool, and blob brush tool.

Shape Tool- The Shape Tool makes ellipses, polygons, squares, rectangles, circles, and rounded rectangles. kfl;’d jfkla’ jkld jlkf;a djfl;d fj;dl

Adobe Illustrator was the first thing we learned in industrial design camp. First, we got to know the tools. The shape tool being the leader of our tool parade, makes rectangles, circles, flares, and squares! Though these shapes are not the end all and be all. They are the basics, helping us make more complex shapes.

My favorite project was making our own trophy. I liked it becuase we could use any shapes or colors. Also, it seemed like the perfect balance, not too hard but a challenge. When I made my tropthy, I first made an image in my head of an i dea of what it could look like. Then, I started making it. If I by accident made ano- ther shape “out of place” or deleted something, or the object didn’t turn the way i thought it would, I wouldn’t think it was “out of place”, or I wouldn’t put the deleted object back, or make it perfect. I let be anything. Once I made that, I would work off the object I on accident made. Causing different shapes and objects to turn into endless designs to excplore and make into trophies! This is why making our own trophies was one of my favorite experiences in industrial design. When we first started tinkercad we learned all the shapes, box, pyramid, cylinder, ..etc….I thought it was hard to remember control, click, drag rotates, control shift, click, drag moves across the sreen. Then I got the hang of it and found, once you do get the hang of it, you can make anything almost effortlessly. After that, we learn how to import adobe illus- trator onto tinkercad. I found the whole process pretty easy. Finally, we learned how to make 3D objects on tinkercad “3D printable” as in, no big objects sticking out ofr hanging in midair, because the 3D printer will not be able to build in midair:D. I liked tinkercad because it had logicall controls, not the key pad controls but the ones on the screen.