Mother's Day Project

Mother's Day is Sunday May 10th in the U.S. and Monday May 11th in Latin American countries.  If you finish up all other work for my class and would like to do something nice for your mom, moms, or mothering people in your life, please try the following project: 

YOUR REGULAR CLASSWORK MUST BE FINISHED FIRST

Step 1) Open Inventor and create a new part

Step 2) While that is opening, go online and find an image of a “Coloring Book Heart” use the snipping tool to save it somewhere that you will remember for use in a few steps.

Step 3) Once your part opens, create a 2d Sketch in the XY plane.
a) Use the Text tool to type your mother’s name.You will want to use a script font 1” high - Script MT Bold is one of the favorites.
b) If the first letter is not attached create two separate images, one with the the first letter, one with the rest of the name.
c) Act like you are going to draw a rectangle around your mom’s name, but just to get the length of the name, then hit Escape.
d) Finish that sketch

Step 4) Extrude each part of your mom’s name the length you found in Step 3c.

Step 5) Inside the Browser, click the little plus sign to the left of Origin to open up your planes.  Create a work plane inside the XZ plane offset by -1”.

Step 6)  Right click on the words Work Plane and select New Sketch
a) Using the Rectangle tool, draw a square around the entire work plane
b) Using the Image tool, bring in the heart shape you saved in Step 2
c) Resize the heart shape and get it positioned so that it covers all your mom’s name, but stays inside the square you drew in Step 6a.
d) Using Arc and Line tools, trace around the outside of the heart making sure all connecting points are green dots before you move on to the next one.  Any glitches here will prevent your extrusion in the next step and will lead to a lot more work on your part.
e) Make a triangle shape at the bottom to form a base / stand for the heart.
f) Finish the sketch

Step 7) Use Extrude “Cut” to remove all of the material outside of the heart shape.

At this point if the extrusion does not work cleanly, you will need to go back into the sketch from step 6 and edit the sketch so that it will cut correctly.

Step 8) Optional - Create a Work Plane on the side of the shape and give it a teardrop shape

Step 9) Export > CAD Format > change the .DWG to be .STL and save it into your documents

Step 10) Drag that blank white .STL file to a flash drive and eject the flash drive before giving it to your teacher.

If the video above fails to load, try watching it on YouTube at https://youtu.be/94Ymj6p1YGI