Goal

Develop a prac­ti­cal appli­ca­tion of design skills in a 3D arti­fact and prod­uct space.

Objective

Cre­ate a 3D model for print­ing, that will serve as the foun­da­tion for cre­at­ing cast metal medals.

Background Reading

Additional Inspiration Resources

• How It’s Made — Cham­pi­onship Rings https://​youtu​.be/​r​n​u​a​2​-​N​o​Yp8
• How an NBA CHAMPIONSHIP RING is Made | Sports Dis­sected https://​youtu​.be/​N​y​t​U​M​X​B​r​jwY
• Mak­ing a Medal Using the Sand Cast­ing Process https://​youtu​.be/​T​L​9​1​9​m​Y​2​8fk

Technique

• Adobe Fire­fly V3: A Com­plete 3D Tuto­r­ial https://​youtu​.be/​R​k​q​_​e​D​e​G​I​M​w​?​s​i​=​V​I​n​3​L​W​2​D​2​o​8​A​L​RYk
• Cre­ate 3D graph­ics in Illus­tra­tor https://​helpx​.adobe​.com/​i​l​l​u​s​t​r​a​t​o​r​/​u​s​i​n​g​/​c​r​e​a​t​e​-​3​d​-​g​r​a​p​h​i​c​s​.​h​tml
• How To Use 3D in Illus­tra­tor: EVERYTHING You Need to Know https://​youtu​.be/​W​g​_​b​X​C​9​l​X​G​U​?​s​i​=​6​C​O​i​C​R​w​J​i​M​E​a​Z​sP8
• 3D Text in Adobe Illus­tra­tor | 4 Easy Effects https://​youtu​.be/​R​0​O​z​B​_​H​5​U​I​Y​?​s​i​=​z​Y​g​_​G​S​u​d​0​5​Y​C​q​UIL
• New! Cre­ate and Export 3D from Illus­tra­tor https://​youtu​.be/​H​k​J​0​g​K​s​z​a​I​8​?​s​i​=​q​z​m​V​O​m​N​w​c​q​e​F​y​yqP
• From 2D to 3D in under 10 mins | Adobe Illus­tra­tor + Adobe Dimen­sion Tuto­r­ial https://​youtu​.be/​J​l​L​Y​g​X​b​Y​Z​r​0​?​s​i​=​o​2​3​p​Y​g​i​3​1​M​G​7​N​mS1
• How to Design 3D Text in Adobe Dimen­sion https://​youtu​.be/​f​R​b​h​4​y​s​i​o​Z​g​?​s​i​=​x​h​T​f​B​o​s​B​Q​-​O​W​3​JTO
• Design 3D Text Scene in Adobe Dimen­sion | XO PIXEL https://​youtu​.be/​Z​2​i​0​m​n​_​Q​_​4​0​?​s​i​=​U​4​I​S​g​k​6​R​r​_​r​c​4​3d5
• Image to STL https://​image​tostl​.com
• How to import an image into Tin­ker Cad https://​youtu​.be/​N​N​8​j​v​z​m​7​D8s
• How to Import a SVG Vec­tor File into Tin­ker­cad https://​youtu​.be/​1​f​l​9​g​2​H​h​8tg
• Image to Lithopane https://​3dp​.rocks/​l​i​t​h​o​p​h​a​ne/
• 15 Tools to Instantly Con­vert 2D Images to 3D Ones | 2021 Edi­tion https://​www​.rankred​.com/​c​o​n​v​e​r​t​-​2​d​-​i​m​a​g​e​s​-​t​o​-​3d/

Model Repositories

• https://​clara​.io/​l​i​b​r​ary
• https://​free3d​.com

Assignment

Cre­ate a sam­ple medal for the fin­ish­ers of the ORU Home­com­ing 5K race. Medals are often mod­eled in one media (in this case dig­i­tally via 3D printer) to make molds to cast final metal, prior to enam­el­ing. The rib­bon used to wear the medal is inte­gral part of the com­po­si­tion. Work­ing on small groups will reduce print­ing time, but will also fos­ter col­lab­o­ra­tion and spe­cial­iza­tion. Choose a part­ner based on both 3D and 2D skill sets. Notify the course instruc­tor of the mem­bers of the group.

Part One

Ideas, sketches, do not for­get about the rib­bon. Develop any nec­es­sary files using 3D mod­el­ing soft­ware, vec­tor or photo edit­ing soft­ware. Cre­ate a 2D sam­ple dig­i­tal file for cre­at­ing the medal. Cre­ate a file for the color and print­ing for the ribbon.

Technical Specifications

Medal

• 80 mm max area
• 50 mm cen­tral disk
• 4 mm max­i­mum height
• 2 mm min­i­mum height

Ribbon

• 38 mm width
• 450 mm length

Part Two

Cre­ate a model in Tin­ker­cad or sim­i­lar 3D mod­el­ing soft­ware, includ­ing Adobe Illus­tra­tor. Use the import­ing, export­ing and con­vert­ing tools to bring in the nec­es­sary art­work files. Ulti­mately, cre­ate a model or sev­eral model pieces that can be printed on a 3D printer. Deliver the model files (OBJ) to the appro­pri­ate D2L drop­box for print­ing by the instructor.

Part Three

Use Adobe or Illus­tra­tor or Dimen­sion to color the final medal. Then, use Dimen­sion and any addi­tional soft­ware to cre­ate a ren­der­ing of the final medal. Export a JPG image of final ren­der­ing and upload to appro­pri­ate D2L dropbox. 

• The fol­low­ing rubric posted on D2L will deter­mine exer­cise score: Exer­cise Grading

Techniques

raster, images, lay­ers, AR edit­ing, ani­ma­tion, trig­gers, actions

Supplies

Adobe illus­tra­tor, Pho­to­shop, Aero, Dimen­sion, Cre­ative Cloud Account, iOS device