Azure Cheetah Toy Design

This is the documentation of the process of the design of the Azure Cheetah toy for the RAPDASA 3D print design competition.

In the page above, I explored various ideas for toys. I initially wanted to design an interesting toy that fulfilled tasks that are overlooked by many other toy designs. I considered the fact that I, when I was a child, and a number of other children I have observed, are frustrated when they can’t decide the position of a toy for themselves. However, when they do have a toy whose position they can decide, they enjoy it even less than the toys without movement. I realized that this was true in my case because the toys that could move could either not form truly organic shapes (ie. Lego) or they had unattractive joins that spoiled the aesthetic of the toy.

I made a precedent board exploring decorated organic shapes, toys, and the animals they represent.

With this project then, I attempted the design of a toy with moving joints where the joins become a decorative feature to add to the aesthetic of the toy instead of subtract from it.

For this project, I used The Gimp, Blender, Solidworks, Solidworks Visualize and CorelDraw. The form was traced and worked out in Coreldraw, considering tolerancies and size.

It was then exported to a .jpg file which was then imported into Blender and manually traced with a 2D mesh to keep a clean mesh. The 2D mesh was extruded into a 3D form and the mesh was tidied up. The mesh was then cut using the Boolean operator in order to maintain a solid looking form in the mesh. It was then sculpted using the sculpting tools in Blender to achieve an organic shape.

It was then rendered in both Blender and Solidworks Visualize. I imported my mesh into Solidworks by exporting to .stl files which were successfully opened and edited in Solidworks by selecting ‘import’ – ‘file type = .stl’ – ‘options’ – ‘solid body’. This method only worked if the mesh is closed. It can otherwise be imported as a mesh and successfully rendered, but not edited.

The toy was designed to be 3D printed with a hollow infill of 30% to keep it lightweight. Average tolerance between parts is 0.3 mm.

Final renders were edited in The Gimp and CorelDraw.

Current progress is being made into adding colour to the surface of the toy in Blender using the Cycles Node Editor.

Refrence links to the images used in renders and precedent board:

- https://hdfootagestock.com/similar/22727896/abstract-blue-bokeh-background
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- http://www.interior-dsgn.com/ideas-for-decorating-kids-rooms-by-neopolis-interior-design/
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- https://ru.dhgate.com/product/france-produced-shangzhi-toys-animal-model/375958036.html
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