Refined Coat Hook Concept

    This is a continuation of my previous blog post in which concepts for a coat hook were demonstrated. From there I have chosen one of said concepts to refine, based upon feedback from peers, as well as my professor. In the end I decided to go with concept #4 to refine. The reason I chose this is because not only was it a favorite amongst my peers, but a fantastic way to improve the idea of the concept was suggested to me.  This was to add tracks which the pegs could slide on, as this further strengthened the key idea of a coat hook,  which is that it was designed to hold multiple coats without them overlapping to allow for easier access. I did consider applying the idea from concept #1, in which the coat hook easily slides on and off a bracket, however this would add a further degree of difficulty to installation, and require more mounting hardware as the current design relies on the mounting hardware to hold the various components together.

Pictured below are the rankings from myself, my peers, and an average of each category.

 

 

 

Aaaaand without further ado, I present the renders of a further refined coat hook concept!

 

 

Individual parts view, pre-assembly 

 

    Assembled View:

Note:  unfilled holes are for mounting hardware (screws,) and will be further refined once I learn the dimensions of the mounting hardware

 

 

Exploded view to demonstrate the way in which the coat hook is assembled

 Coat Hook Concept Generation

    For these ideas I tried to adhere to what constitutes "good design," as according to the Objectified documentary by Gary Hustwit, especially the principle that a good design is easy to  understand the purpose of, and almost doesn't look designed at all as it is so obvious, that it seems silly to do it any other way. This was quite the contrast to my usual go to of making things as complicated as I possibly can. Furthermore I sought inspiration from Japanse stationery, which is usually very plain in appearance, but with clever little features that are simple and very functional.

 Printed Hollow Form Object

    This is a continuation of my previous blog post, in which I have chosen one of my concepts and refined it to the point that it is ready to be printed. Of the six various concepts that can be seen in my previous blog post, I decided to go with what I call the "Ice Cream," due to it's spiraling design that happens to look like soft serve.

 

    Although it doesn't appear that I've really done anything to alter this concept, I have made changes to increase the odds of a successful print, and taken feedback from classmates into consideration. The biggest change that I made based on feed back is going from a solid bottom layer to a hollow one, as it was pointed out to me that it'd add a very interesting element to my design by being able to see the inside of the spiral. Aside from that I smoothed out the transition near the upper 1/3rd where the taper becomes steeper, & truncated the tip or "point" at the top of the spiral earlier. This is because when I threw it into PrusaSlicer, and sliced it, the preview showed little floating dots as a result of just how tiny it was. I did consider that it may still have worked, but decided against trying it as I'm already taking a risk with the overhangs caused by the degree of twist my object has. Furthermore, even if it did all work out, I worry that it'd be extremely fragile.

Sliced View

Although Technically Truncated it still visually appears to come to a point

Print Settings:

The settings I intend to use for printing are:

• Spiral Tool path as I think that the appearance of such will work well with the spiral design
  
• Double Perimeter to increase rigidity
• Hollow Bottom layer so one can see the inside of the spiral as well