Tips

In evaluation the physical design assignments, I noticed some of the students are forgetting some important points.
When there are crucial steps missing or not fully included I cannot grade a sufficient.
To avoid everybody a lot of extra work, here are the most common items students forget to include:

• include all your design files
• the dimensions of your product
• optimisations for the chosen machine
• the manual manufacturing result should resemble your design for the machine. (and it is ok if it only resembles, given the circumstances it is difficult and sometimes impossible to make a 1:1 copy) It should not be something completely different.
• a clear description of your dataset. Be precise include numbers, and situations.
• the problems you encountered and how you tried to solve it. Also be complete, in your description.
• when you talk about time, effort, cost, ect. be precise include numbers.
• check your document for completeness and spelling

Students forget to include the following points:

• which device type and model are you designing for?
• what material are you using? Don't say: plastic or wood
• the inclusion of the (Ultimaker) Cura step (slicing)
• optimisations as printing time, structure, no supports, ect.
  See also 3D printing optimisation tips: printing speed, infill density, wall thickness, nozzle size, layer height, batch printing, material choice.
  And Laser cutting optimisation tips: cutting time, reduce residual material, ignore cutting head lift this is more relevant for other types of laser printers and metal