Design challenges
Google SketchUp & i.materialise 3D printed lamp Design Challenge
3 September 2010 - 25 October 2010
In order to show you just how powerful and easy SketchUp is we got together with the Google SketchUp team to devise a Design Challenge that will test your product design and SketchUp skills to the limit. We've decided to let you make your very own 3D printed lamp. An actual lamp, unique, one of a kind, designed by you, complete with light and stand. The images below show you some fine examples. Can you come up with something even better?
What can you win?
Can you design the most original SketchUp lamp? The top three designers will win and their own one of a kind lamp 3D printed by i.materialise! The lamps will come complete with design stand and light. On top of that, a free license for the brand spanking new Google SketchUp Pro 8 from Google will be given to the best designer.
Judging Criteria
The Google SketchUp & i.materialise teams will jointly judge the contest to try to find the most original 3D printed lamp. We will judge based on the following criteria:
- Is the lamp original?
- Is the lamp practical?
- Does the design make optimal use of 3D printing technology?
- Does the designer exhibit good SketchUp 3D modeling skills?
Out of all these criteria the most important is originality but please don't forget that we have to be able to make the lamp!
The design guidelines for the lamp, the fitting and the base can be found here. Should you get stuck you can always email contact (at) i.materialise.com and we will help you.
How to enter?
Upload the model and a screenshot of your creation via the upload button at the top of this page. You can look at the other entries as they come in below.
“Delight with your very own 3D light”
48 Comments
Just that you know, the fitting in the lamp base design kit is suitable for US users also.
Thanks.
How about a link to a lamp_design_kit.skp with the US fitting ?
Apologies.
Thank you.
Thanks, Mac
@Mac, the maximum bounding box you can use is a cube of 13*13*13cm (or 5.1*5.1*5.1 inch)
Good luck Guys!
What's the point of showing a lamp in a panorama frame ?
good point. We're working on improving the renderings as we think they need to be better too. We'll see what we can do about orientation also.
Can the SketchUp model contain multiple intersecting closed objects and/or coplanar faces?
What would likely be the minimum distance between objects (for the objects to remain separate after the print)?
What would be the minimum recommended thickness for an object?
Thank You.
Best regards
- First of all I have to say that yes, you can try making your 3D design from the multiple 3D parts (like the small cube inside bigger one, for example) however if the parts are intersecting, they will be sintered during the printing process and will printed as a one part, not two.
- The minimal recommended distance between the parts should be around 0.5 mm, however this may vary from technology to technology.
- The minimal recommended thickness for the parts has to be not less then 0.8 mm - 1.0 mm, however this also may vary a bit from technology to technology.
Regards,Vlad
The minimal thickness of the lamp's walls is around 0.8 mm - 1.0 mm, as I have already highlighted earlier, in this case the material has the best translucency options.
However, from the other side - if you are making the whole lamp that thin, it will be really fragile, thus you have to think on your design in order not to crash the lamp while touching it.
BR, Vlad.
is the material a little flexible? Or is it totally stiff?
Thanks
I was wondering how many designs one person can submit?
Thanks.
@Terri. This varies depending on the type of light and also how much light is around the material. It would be very hard to control but things under 1.5mm tend to be translucent and then anything above that is less so.
because i am trying to get together a kinematic lampshade,
i have a question about hinges...
is there any clearance/tolerance for polyamide sintering,
from which one will get loose hinges in the printed model ?
because i want to avoid that,
i would like to know the clearance for hinges that will be rather stiff
- will allow movement, but not a loose one.
any hints appreciated,
thanx !)
I forwarded your question to our experts - they'll look at it by Friday. Keep you posted...
(your plan sounds nice by the way!)
Martijn
That unfortunately takes out some of the gimmicky details, like that the "IT'S ALL GOOD" lamp shade sheets are actually spelling "IT'S ALL G00:00D" in an imitation of those digital lamps that project the time on the wall. It would be nice if you can check the uploader for the still coming contributions. Thanks.
Btw, fast follow-up you're doing here :) I got my design approved after about an hour, even though it's late in the night!
Please also take into account that the remaining powder between the loose models can be removed.
I hope this can help you and good luck!
thank you for the advice,
i am really looking forward to the result !)
have a nice weekend ;)
A few of the lamps already uploaded and presented are obviously not down specifically in sketchup.
Can you advise?
Thanks
Thanks!
@Mwelch, please send the correct model to our support email adress and we'll replace it
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@Terri, Please just take the 6cm into account as minimal diameter of the sphere
@Rossbrinker @Kyle, that's a bug, normally we are able to accept .skp files. please send your files to our email adress and i'll make sure your designs are approved for the challenge.
Good luck to all of you!
will this format be accepted? or does this eliminate me?
When are the results goint to be published????
Hi guys,
The results were already published:
http://i.materialise.com/blog/entry/the-google-sketchup-lamp-challenge-winners-3d-printed
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