Wobbly Elephant

I always wonder when I see hand-carved Indian traditional wooden toys or tabletops in which animal is placed inside grid animal.

Base on this concept I made this toy which is self-balance as well. I use fusion 360 to design a toy and use flashforge finder 3D printer to print.

1. Computer with internet connection

2. Fusion 360 or any other 3d modelling software

3. 3D printer

1. Create sphere for body

2. Then create a relatively small sphere for the head on top of the first sphere and combine both spheres

3. Apply filet on edge between both the spheres

4. Draw arc for trunk

5. Draw a circle at the one end of the arc

6. Select the circle and another point of the arc and perform loft

7. Apply filet on edge between head and trunk

8. Cut some part of elephant trunk near point and apply filet on it.

9. Draw ear shape and extrude both sides

10. Apply filet on ear edges

11. Make a copy of the elephant using the move command and keep it aside for some time

12. Slice the elephant in the center as shown in the figure and apply the shell to hollow out both halves.

13. Combine both halves using the combine tool

1. Draw and extrude rectangle at bottom of the elephant and rotated 15degree as shown in figure

2. Use a combine tool to select a rectangular box as a targeted body and elephant as a tool body. Tick keep tool option and perform the cut operation

3. Hide remaining part of the box and combine elephant body and cut part of the box which is inside the elephant

1. Draw grid of circle on side view and extrude by selecting cut operation.

2. Construct plane at 45 degree on X axis and draw grid as shown in figure and extrude using cut operation.

1. Scale down other copy of elephant and place inside the grid elephant using move command

1. I oriented the elephant as shown in the figure to Minimize support required

2. Delete inside support generated by software

3. Use 100℅ infill for balance weight of elephant