Summary

As this book is now coming to a close, it’s important to not only consider the key topics and skills discussed in this chapter but also how they connect to our overall objective for this text. As demonstrated in this practical application, you now have the skills and abilities to design and create a real-world product, such as a phone case.

With your skills in taking measurements, planning out a project, utilizing CAD to design models, testing and simulating the functionality of these models, preparing them for manufacturing, and manufacturing them successfully using rapid prototyping technology, truly anything is achievable.

While it may not always be immediately clear, many of the strategies and tools implemented across this project and the ones completed previously are universal and can be utilized for other projects as well. Being able to implement dimensions, develop custom shapes, adjust shape parameters, and work through creating complex multi-part models...