Desktop Item Holder

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The design is meant to hold notecards and sticky notes in an organized fashion while also having space to hold pencils and pens. As desk space is not infinite I tried to keep the design as small as possible while still being able to accommodate a standard 3x5 notecard. The design can help classmates with virtual learning by providing easy access to notecards and sticky notes without having to search through your desk/room to find them. The design would also allow classmates with virtual learning to have a small object where they could not only store their notecards and sticky notes, but also a couple of pens/pencils. One of the issues that I faced while designing this was the difficulty of maintaining the correct thickness of the walls when using angles. I decided to have the notecards, sticky notes, and pencil holders at an angle to make it easier to take them out when needed and to make it easier to put in. However having them at an angle made it harder to model as I had to maintain that angle the entire time which ended up getting messed up multiple times due to constraints and extrusions. If I could redesign this again I would make it less uniform, because for the most part it is just three blocks that were shelled out and stuck together. Making it less uniform would make it look more visually appealing. 3D printing would help strengthen my design as it would not only make it much easier to produce the design, but it would also allow me to be more precise in the design allowing me to add smaller details that I wouldn’t otherwise be able to add. It would also make it much faster in terms of producing the item and would help maintain the angles of the slots in the design.