My main goal for this week was to develop original design for my device, using different 2D and 3D graphic editors, getting experienced with different approaches.

I started from 2D graphics, and decide to choose Sketch because I was familiar with GIMP and Corel and Photoshop earlier and wanted to try something new.

In general program look very nice and useful, all buttons on their places and everything you need is always is in the viewport.

Sketch brings components for designers, while Photoshop working with layers. User can group, ungroup, rename components and prepare group actions for them, it’s very handy.

Playing with parameters, I was able to prepare different layouts for buttons for my device very quickly

Result file I saved for further improvements: Link

For 3D sketching I firstly decided to use Tinkercad. It was an easy decision: we are using this amazing product to learn kids to prepare their own 3D models for 3D printing in our lab. It is very easy to access Tinkercad environment – it’s just a web-browser based program, so you don’t need to download anything.

I imagined how my device could looks like and add some basic forms: boxes, holes, faces.

I guess one of the best feature I found is sending design right to the 3D printer (different clouds supported). Export to 3D communities also supported (I prefer Thingiverse and Sketchfab)

Result file I placed on Thingiverse and Sketchfab and also saved in repository: Link

Sketchfab has ability to embed models right in web browser, so lets do it: