When this was assigned I instead wanted to make a phone holder where I could recline my phone at a comfortable angle horizontally and watch a movie. I measured the dimensions of my phone. (Picture below).
First sketch in the middle, final at the bottom. The revisions I made to my design are as follows
Lowered angle of elevation for phone by 50%, from 30 to 15 degrees
Thickened the spot where the edge of the phone will sit at the base to prevent warping
Increased the length of the ramp from the base being 2 inches to the hypotenuse being 2 inches
Increased height of block use to stop phone from sliding off
Reduced fill (accidentally set to 60%) to 10%
Below on the left is the first draft of the sketch and the right side picture is the final print
Both extruded by 3 inches
File set up in MakerBot
MakerBot Preview screen
File being printed
I used a larger phone for testing just to make sure it would fit all
Throughout this rotation I got very comfortable using Inventor to draw a part. I had to first think of what would be realistic because this is an actual product and not just a widget. It needs to support the size and weight of a phone. Using real lengths I got a good idea of what the final product would turn out to be using Inventor and through reasoning and measuring I could tell that my first project would not work. I made changes to help support the phone and the product turned out significantly better than it would have. I also got pretty comfrotable using the MakerBot printers, especially due to the simplicity.