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When prototyping, Test small parts of the design

10/13/2014

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PicturePoorly designed dish rack
I needed a small dish rack for my small apartment in Charlotte.  I usually only have a plate, a glass, a few cooking utensils and such to wash so it doesn't make sense to use the dishwasher.  I designed and printed what I thought would be a pretty decent setup, shown to the left.  It worked OK for a salad plate, but a dinner plate would not stand up on it's own.  I violated one of the basic tenets of prototyping in that I printed the entire model without first testing the design with a few pieces.  I wasted plastic and time printing pieces that I would never use.  Live and learn. 

So I went back to SketchUp and reworked the model.  This time I only printed a few pieces to test the design.  This one worked, so I printed the remaining parts and came up with the dish rack shown to the right.
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Dishrack #Abstract2Actual : 4:55
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