Criterion C: Creating The Solution

16.11.2016

Exploring TinkerCad Skills and to create my chosen design.


INSTRUCTIONS: 

1. Put a screenshot of your object on your blog. 
2. Create a plan of the steps that you followed for creating the product.

Write a reflection on your blog after each product by answering the following questions:- 

REFLECTION

1) What are the basic shapes that you used to create the product?
2) What are the techniques that you have used for creating the product?( eg:- making holes, making curves etc)
3) What are the challenging things that you encountered while creating the product? 




23/11/2016


My Shoe Design so far... 

So far, my work on TinkerCad to create the electronic shoe that can monitor steps, distance, time the shoe has been worn and also the amount of calories burnt... is not finished yet. The steps will be written down once it has been finished which should be (don't take my word for it) 27/11/2016. This is how it looks so far: 

I tried to get a full 360 Degree view of whatever is on my shoe so far. All I have to do now is to focus on the top of the shoe and I should be done. I also need to confirm with my drawings that this is matching it. 

27/11/2016

The Masterpiece Presentation

So, I was finally able to finish my shoes on TinkerCad and take screenshots of them. Here they are:

Left of the shoes

Front of the shoes

Right of the shoe

Back of the shoe

Personally, I tried my best to make the best shoes but compared to some of the others that I found on the Internet, this isn't the best. This is probably one of the worst. In fact, if you want, here are some shoes created by others that I found in the TinkerCAD Gallery: 

As you can see, if you compare mine to other people's projects on TinkerCad I would say that my level of skill on TinkerCAD is quite low. I must repeat, I did do my best.


Don't get me started on the ways to create my shoes. They are quite long and I am not sure if I will be able to remember it all. I will try anyway:

Steps on how to make the shoe. 

• I start by going to the Geometric Library and taking out 2 round roofs and rotating them in 90 Degrees clockwise for the one on the right and for the one on the left, rotate the round roof 90 Degrees anticlockwise. 
• Next, get another round roof and and put it on the back of the 2 round roofs that are playing the role of the sides of the shoe. Make sure that the flat side is being placed on the back of the shoe so that the curved area sticks out. 
• The next thing is to get a half sphere and put it exactly on the opposite of the round roof that is placed at the end of the shoe. Place the half sphere in such a way that both the flat sides are facing each other. 
• Now, the round roof at the back of the shoe should be stretched in height. Do it to the most appropriate height, because this is going to be the heel counter. 

• The next thing is to prepare the sides of the shoe. Since I had to follow my design on paper, I had to get 2 boxes from the Geometric Library and I had to make the thickness of the boxes quite small because and the length of the box had to be made in such a way that it turned into a box to a rectangle. 
• I repeated making those boxes and then over lapped them on top of each other to make the cross and also to make the A-like structure on side of my shoe. 

• Probably the hardest part of making the shoe: Making the monitors. To make the monitors, I had to get a lot of numbers from the numbers library because there is no feature where I can type in the numbers that I need (This is something I wish that the developer of TinkerCAD install). So, I got out all the numbers and also all of the letters that I needed to write some words. 
• The next thing I used was to put the numbers and the letters together to make the proper words and numbers. Ex: If I were to pull out the numbers 1, 5, 0 and the letters C, A, L, S. I would put them together to make: 150 Cals. 
• Once you've made the right numbers and letters, you can finally group and put them aside. 
• Next, get a box and make it like a flat rectangle with the thickness of 1. Then, put those numbers and letters onto the box. That box can act as your screen of the digital screen. 
• The hardest part of the whole making of the shoe: To show that I will be having a cover to resemble that my shoe digital monitor is protected by a water resistant and scratch resistant and heat resistant cover, I need to put lines in the monitor. I can only put them vertically and not horizontally because if I were to do that, then the letters and numbers would become messed up. So, strategically, the boxes have to become like little I's so that they could go into the digital screen without messing up the numbers. 
• If you have followed it correctly and done it how did in my shoe: This is how the monitor should look like:  

The next thing that comes that is indeed one of the most important of them all is: The FPA (Foot Placement Area) and this was quite a lucky thing for me. I will not give the story but I will just tell you how to make the FPA.

• First, go to the Holes Library and take out a square shape hole. Now, adjust the square in such a way that the foot can be placed properly. The next thing that you need to do is to select (using Right clicking and holding down shift) the hole shape, and the 2 sides of the shoe. Then press the "Group" button which is close to the top right hand corner of the screen. Then once that is done, ungroup everything and wait for 2 seconds. There you go, there should a hole in the shoe for the foot to be placed. This should look like the example below: 

The next are the laces, and the most realistic part of the shoe. I really do love this part of the shoe because it really gives a good touch to the shoe. Here is how it is done: 

• Get a round roof shape from the Geometric Library and then place it in front of the Hole Square Shape that you used to create the hole. Then raise it up in such a way that the round roof is in line with the Square Shape Hole. If this sounds confusing, you will be able to get it as you do it. 
• Next are the laces. For this I took 6 spheres and I got a new shape that I haven't mentioned yet: A Torus. There are 3 different types of Toruses and they are: Torus Thin, Normal Torus and also Thick Torus. Depending on the size of the lace you want, you need to make the laces. 
• You take out the 6 spheres and put 3 on each side. Then, try to adjust the last toruses to be able to connect with the spheres. 
• Group the spheres with the toruses.
• To cover your tracks, try to put the lower part of the torus under the round roof so that it looks from the outside that the laces are connecting with the spheres.  

• The next thing that need to be done for the laces are is the classical knot to symbolize the shoe's laces. For this, you will need to go to the Geometric Library and get out 2 Thin Toruses, 1 sphere and 2 boxes.  Now, rotate the toruses so that they look like the bunny ears of the knot. Then, at the end of the bunny ears, place the sphere in between them to resemble the knot. The 2 boxes will be used to make very small, french fry like, rectangles to resemble the end of the laces after using tying the knot. 

If you followed all of these instruction carefully and you are able to make laces look similar (if not same) to the shoe, the laces should look like this: 

• I can't not believe that I have not mentioned this at the start but I guess I will do now, the LOGO! Now, the Logo is not hard because it is basically placing an A near the heel. The hard part might be if you do not find space to put it. So that is why you might struggle but otherwise there is no other reason to be struggling. This is how it should look like if you are trying to copy my shoe. 

• The next thing is to make the memory foam of the shoe which is supposed to be under the shoe.
• Start by getting a box from the Geometric Library and color it black. Make the box a little bit thick because it should make the runner feel that he/she is running on air/clouds. 
• Put is under the shoe by raising the shoe; select everything in the shoe by holding the left click on the mouse and drag it to cover everything. 
• Then, there is a black arrow at the top of the shoe, hold on it and raise the shoe. Finally, the shoe will be raising up. Please do not raise too high so that you can see the shadow of the shoe. 
• The shadow of the shoe will be able to be presented on the workplane and then, using the shadow, place the memory foam under the shoe.
• Bring the shoe back down and make sure that it is presentable when seen on TinkerCAD. 

If you want to see the memory foam: here it is: 

Reflection 

The most common shapes that are being used in this shoe are: Round Roofs, Boxes, letters and numbers, spheres and toruses.

I used a lot of copying and pasting. I had to do quite a bit of grouping. Usually, I use Alt to copy shapes but I didn't use it in this case. I also used my skills of my making holes.

I found it difficult to make the shoe realistic and at the same time maintain a proper shoe form. I think making the monitors of the shoe and also putting the cover of the monitor was even harder. Also making the border (front, back, left and right) of the shoe realistic was difficult because, like Ms. Veena said, the shoe will not meet our expectations due to the limitations of the shoe.