Electoral College Map

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Tried my hand at creating an electoral college map of the lower 48 states. Each state's height is its electoral vote in millimeters when printed at full scale. Print Settings Printer Brand: Printrbot Printer: Simple Black Rafts: Doesn't Matter Supports: No Resolution: .2064mm Infill: 15% Notes: Printed at .2064 to ensure the difference between 3 and 4 vote states is not lost. Only one shell was used as each state's border is rendered separately. When printed on my Printrbot, scaled to half size, the boundary between states with the same number of votes (e.g. North/South Dakota) becomes faintly visible. How I Designed This Started by using this map: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:SVG_maps_of_the_United_States#/media/File:Blank_US_Map_48states.svg Cleaned up details and added a border with Inkscape, then imported it into Fusion 360 where each state was easily extruded based on its electoral vote count. Nebraska and Maine have different methods of allocating electoral votes, but they were simply added together in those cases.