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surprise that I found myself being asked to design some 3D printed awards for the end of year 2018 Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for to get to be designing them – besides, now I can print them out for myself! I was asked to design 2 different awards which you can see pictured above. The first were a set of 3 medals, and my only brief was to have them 3D printed in metal, and for them be approximately the size of previous medals given out for the awards. I based my design on a with an important feature being the cone-like details which hold this as*embly together when printed as a single part. There is no support material required, with one of my goals being to highlight through the design the capabilities of 3D printing in metal. For recipients, my goal was to create something playful and engaging, rather than most medals which are kept in a case and quickly forgotten. Thanks to my be specific), you can probably guess there was a lot of manual post-processing of these medals to remove the base supports and polish the surfaces. Below you can see the medal as it comes out of the printer on the left (once cut from the build plate), and the final polished version on the right. All of the base support material you can see in the raw version had to be filed away while held in a vice, The second award was a trophy which also continued with the 3D printed as*embly concept. My only brief for this design was for it to be which is very similar to SLS printing. Many of us have seen the “ball in a ball in a ball” type of prints which are often shown at 3D printing expos and events, and I built off this to incorporate a lattice frame to contain the ba*ls. The basic design was done in Meshmixer in order to export them as a final fully as*embled file ready for printing. A little bit of laser cutting and timber work by a colleague really helped bring the design to life, and again, the trophy encourages I hope you enjoy your awards as much as I did creating them. With any luck I might get to design them again in 2 years and bring one home