Design Process: 3D Replication
For this project, I was asked to replicate a specific kind of gate latch for a patron at the makerspace I worked at. Luckily he already had an extra one for one of his other gates, I used this as a reference for the 3D modelling segment of my process.
The original metal version of the gate latch.
Spline Model Tracing from a front-facing reference photo with measurements.
Extrusion of the traced-spline to the accurate measurements.
ProBoolean cut holes to accurate measurements.
The tested and finalized 3D model ready for accurate 3D print replication.