Homemade Shelves and 3D Printed Hooks

Over this past summer, I made a couple of shelves for my room. After making them, I quickly realized I had no way to hang them up. Being frustrated and out of ideas, I put that project to the side for the time being. A couple of weeks later classes started at my university. Since classes start I knew there was not going to be time for me to finish the shelves until winter break.  Then in my digital fabrication class, the first mini project that my professor introduced in class was to make a coat hook. After he explained the project, I knew this was the time for me to make hooks for my shelves!

For this mini project, I had to design a hook that was visually interesting and well designed. When designing, I had to figure out how the hook was going to be attached to the wall.

 

I had to design a hook that could be print on 3D printers. Frist step was to design the hook on paper then convert that into a 3D Rhino model. After finished the Rhino file, it had to be export into a .stl file and but into a program called MakerBot. This is the step before I was able to print out my hooks. After getting the file done, it was ready to print.

RHINO FILE OF HOOK

The first attempt of my print didn't work out. I had to go back into my Makerbot file and look over my setting to see what I could fix to make my file print. After look over my file and changing some setting, I restarted the print. Two hours later the print was done!

PROCESSES & TOOLS

Rhino and MakerBot were two programs that were used to complete this project. After using those programs, I was able to use a 3D printer to finished the processes.