🎉 BakeBuild: Shape Your Sweet Wonder! 🍪

BakeBuild is your chance to turn imagination into a snackable reality! In this Hack Club YSWS (You Ship We Ship) event, you’ll design a custom cookie cutter, see it come to life through 3D printing, and have it shipped to your doorstep—complete with a cookie made using your unique design.

What you will be doing here

• You will
  • Learn the basics of CAD by designing and creating your own cookie cutter
  • Get your cookie cutter printed out
  • Get cookies!!!!

Getting Started

• First, sign up or log into Onshape​
• Once you’re signed in, create a document and name it “Cookie Cutter” or something else relevant

Picking a design

• Decide what you want to do​
  • Talk to your friends and brainstorm ideas​
  • Sketch an outline of it using either digital tools or paper
• Find something that has a simple outline, like this loch ness monster!
• Once you’ve got your outline, save an image of it to your computer and return to Onshape!

Importing the image into onshape

• Now that you have your template, we can start designing!​
• Click the plus sign next to studio parts (far right bottom corner)​
  • A dropdown menu should appear​
  • Click on the last option “import”​
• Select your chosen file and click “open”​
• A loading bar will appear and tell you once your image has been successfully imported

Insert the picture

• Now it’s time to add the image!​
• Create a sketch on the top plane and insert the photo ​
• Using the dropdown from “Insert DXF or DWG,” click on “Insert Image”​
• An option to insert an image will appear
• Choose your image from the pop-up​
• Click on the pane you want to drag to draw your image​
• DO NOT CONFIRM YOUR SKETCH YET

Dimension

• Use the dimensioning tool to change the size of your picture​
• In general, your outline probably shouldn’t be over 4in x 4in or 100mm x 100mm

Tracing

• Once you have your image inserted and properly dimensioned, you can start tracing!​
• Use the spline tool and click along your outline to trace it out!​
  • Note that you can edit the points of your spline after confirming it but you cannot undo any (DO NOT TRY UNDOING WHILE MAKING THE OUTLINE)​
• Once you’re happy with your outline, confirm your sketch by clicking on the green checkmark​

3D time

• Once your sketch is confirmed, click the extrude tool and choose “thin” ​
• Then select the outline of your sketch​
• Now you can change the thickness​
• I find that 2mm/.08in work best​
• Then choose the depth​
• You’re going to want this to be about 12.7mm/0.5 in​
• Confirm the Extrude

Pretty little border​

• Click extrude again​
• Select the bottom side of the extrude and use thin to make a pretty border​
  • Thickness ~ 5mm​
  • Depth ~ 2mm

ADMIRE IT!​

• Look at your finished design!​
• Isn’t it pretty?​
• Feel happy and proud ​
• …until you realize that there is still more page to scroll

Screenshot

• Take a screenshot of your design (like so) and save it to your computer​
• You will need this for submission

Export

• Now it’s time to export it!​
• Right click the “part studio” tab where you made your whole design ​
• Select “export”
• A pop up will appear​
• Name your file something relevant and boring like ​“Cookie Cutter” again​
• Select “STEP” for the format​
• Click the blue export button​
• You should now have a STEP file of your cookie cutter saved to your computer

Submitting

• Fill out the form.

You're Done