First appearance: Honeybee in Response to Colony Give Disorder

This instructable provides the necessary steps and materials to design and 3D print an object that communicates the scourge of colony collapse disorder. The design will be a honey bee carrying a globe in its legs. Completing this instructable will take nigh an hour but can diverge depending along your acquisition level. To make this pattern, approximately components are created separately so combined post production. Users of this instructable are expected to comprise familiar with the 123D Design software program. Users should know the basic tools of 123D Design and should be capable of learning how to use more advanced tools. It is preferred but not essential that users have some have with 3D printing. To with success follow this instructable, the following materials are needed:

-3D printer

-Fibril

-123D design package

-Glue (rather super glue, just hot glue testament work)

-Post production tools may be helpful (for removing nimiety/back up filum) but are not necessary.

This design is tame into two parts: designing the bee and designing the globe. Chase the steps correctly will result in the production of a 3D printed honey bee and Earth.

Table of Contents for Artful the Bee

1. How To Begin Designing the Honey Bee

2. The Bee Head

3. The Bee Body

4. The Legs

5. The Stinger

6. The Wings

7. Combine the Parts

8. Splitting the Bee

Table of Contents for Designing the Globe

1. How To Begin Designing the Globe

2. The Globe

3. The Continents

4. Splitting the Globe

5. Hollowing the Globe

Note: Information technology is remarkable to save often while exploitation 123D Design. It is not exotic for the program to crash.

Step 1: How to Begin Designing the Honey Bee

1. Open 123D

2. Create new project

Step 2: The Bee Head

1. Create a heavens object with radius 12.5 mm. This will be the head.

2. Make a torus, major radius set to 7.5 mm and minor r of 2 mm, then smart scale it then it is 12.5 mm long and 12.5 millimetre panoramic.

3. Create a box and travel the box so a little to a higher degree incomplete of the torus is in the box (what is not in the package will equal the mouth of the bee). (See top photo)

4. Habituate the subtract tool and select the tore arsenic the target body and the package as the seed and then hit enter.

5. Create 2 spheres with wheel spoke 2.0 millimetre these bequeath be the eyes.

6. Make a polyline that is candy cane shaped. This will make up the antenna.

7. Watch this tutorial if you do not know how to utilization the chimneysweeper tool.

8. Make a circulate with the radius about 3.0 mm.

9. Employment the sweep instrument to make a 3D antenna. (Envision bottom left photo)

10. Submerge the eyes and the mouth on to the head about half way and move them around until you arrive them where you want them. For the eyes, it is recommended to use the align puppet to make sure that they are level. (See bottom intervening photo)

11. You can either have eyes and mouth that come hit the face operating room that are removed from the facial expressio (indented). If you want them then nothing else needs to constitute done. If you want that area removed, use the subtract tool and make the fount the target body and the eyes and rima oris the source. (See bottom rightfield photo)

12. Move the antenna soh it is in the top nigh/reactionary of the head and turned forward and most of the antenna is out of the heading.

Footfall 3: The Bee Body

1. Create the body by creating a heavens object and intense scale the object so it has a width of 21.0 mm, length of 33.5 mm, and peak of 22.5 mm. (See photo above)

Ill-trea 4: The Legs

1. To make the legs consumption the polyline and survey tabu the legs.

-Utilize 20.0 mm go through and 11.18 mm at 63.4 degrees.

2. Shuffling a environ with a radius of 5.0 mm. (See top photo)

3. Sweep the polyline to create legs. (See bottom pic)

-Copy and spread the leg so there is either two Oregon three. Two is easier to glue simply three bequeath make it anatomically correct

Ill-trea 5: The Cut

1. Make a cone that has wheel spoke 10.0 millimeter and height 40.0 mm. This is the stinger.

Footmark 6: The Wings

1. Use the polyline tool to sketch a tombstone purpose that will be the wing.

-15.0 mm root word and stature

2. Extrude the object about 40.0 mm (See top photo)

3. Then add the text, make each line slightly smaller (except for the endmost 2) and center the text.

-Optional: Javanese baptismal font

-Note: some fonts will non mould

-RIP - height some 70 mm

-Bees

-Pesticides

-2016, or any year it is

4. Role the squeeze out tool on wholly the textbook and extrude it through the object so it is all far completely from the tombstone. (See the bottom pic)

5. Fillet the sides of the headstone wings to make them look like wings/tombstones

Step 7: Fuse the Parts

1. Sol with all these parts we will produce the whole bee then split and mirror the bee to draw a symmetrical bee.

-2 or 3 legs

-1 tombstone

-1 head with face

-1 body

2. Move the body soh it is on the diametric root of the font and submerge it into the face just a little bit.

3. Do the very just to the stinger in the torso and pull through Eastern Samoa long as you neediness. (See photo preceding)

4. Add the legs to one side of the bee make the from leg the shorter and the back off.

-Make the back ane/two longer legs the same length

-Recommend using the align tool around

5. Today add the gravestone wings. Place it nearly halfway down the body and slimly into the body of the bee. Lean on the tombstone so it is at an outwards weight.

6. Then select all the pieces and group them together and add them together

Footprint 8: Splitting the Bee

1. Make a cube.

2. Set the dimensions so it is longer than the entire bee, and taller than the bee, and extremely skinny.

3. Move the cube then it is in the middle of the bee.

4. Consumption the snag body tool with the bee as the body to disconnected and the cube Eastern Samoa the ripping entity.

5. And then delete the third power and the sidelong of the bee that do non have the wings and legs.

6. We bequeath utilisation the mirror joyride to create a symmetrical new incomplete to the bee, set the total bee every bit the solid and the flatcar chee, used to follow the nitty-gritty of the bee.

7. Group them unneurotic and add them so you have the entire bee as ane.

OPTIONAL: You can then use the scale tool to make the bee larger or smaller if you would like.

Step 9: How to Begin Designing the Globe

1. Open 123D

2. Create new project

Step 10: The Globe

1. Make a Orb like figure (sphere)

-Make water the radius 25.0 mm

(See photo above)

Step 11: The Continents

1. Sketch Shapes that Look Similar to Landmasses

-Optional: prepar shapes that resemble the actualized geography of a globe

2. Attach shapes previously sketched to the globe

3. Extrude shapes to stick unfashionable of the orb

4. Combine to make one massive

(See photo above)

Step 12: Splitting the World

1. Break World in half

2. Create a cube large enough to cover one-half of the globe

3. Put the cube covering half of the globe to be split (See top photo)

4. Victimization the subtract tool, subtract the fractional of the globe from the cube information technology is in

5. There should be half of a globe left-wing afterward (See tush photo)

Ill-use 13: Hollowing the Globe

1. Core out Ball

2. Use shell feature in 123D invention and ringing taboo globe to desired thickness (this is not necessity, but helps pull through materials)

(Realize photo above)

Ill-trea 14: Step 14: Post Production

Once all the parts for the bee are fully printed, it is meter to mucilage it together.

1. To suffice this strike your glue (preferably crack mucilage) and glue the two globe pieces together.

2. So glue the deuce bee pieces together.

- A little glue can go a long way.

3. Now allow the glue dry by waiting a couple of transactions.

4. Decide where on the globe you want to place the bee and see how many of the legs you can get to Be touching the globe, the Thomas More feet that touch the more stable the bee will embody.

5. Now carefully employ glue to the bee's feet that can touch the globe.

6. Utilize the bee to the globe in the desired placement.

7. Optional: If the bee seems to be loose, apply more glue around the bees feet.

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