Please give a 👍 if you like this! It is my first time using Fusion 360 and Tinkercad to design and make a model of my own. It was a very fun experience and I look forward to making more models. 😄
I wanted to print more Chinese New Year decorations and trinkets with my new 3D printer, but I couldn't find much options that I liked. Since this contest opened up, I thought it would be a good idea to challenge myself and participate, since the topic is something that I related to.
Red packets (红包 hóngbāo) are often given during Chinese New Year or special occasions (e.g. weddings) as a monetary gift and blessing to the recipient. Red symbolises luck, and is an auspicious colour in the Chinese culture. The words on the two red packets in the image is 福 fú and 吉 jí, which means “blessing” and “lucky”, and they are often encountered on Chinese New year decorations.
The model prints as a 2-layer 2D net. The colour of the characters are only in the bottom layer (facing out). The net can be folded into a red packet. The attached model with 2 red packets take ~20 min to print. 1 red packet takes ~15 min to print.
The plain red packet was designed in Fusion 360. The characters were written using Ma Shan Zheng font (Open Font License), save as .png, and converted to .svg. The red_packet.stl and character.svg were imported into Tinkercad and resized/repositioned, then exported separately as .stl. The files were then opened in Bambu Studio, recoloured, then saved as .3mf.
I can create the models of other characters/images, and will update with the other variants. Do leave a comment or send me a message if there's anything I can help with.