Electoral College Map

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<p>Tried my hand at creating an electoral college map of the lower 48. At full scale, each state's height is its electoral vote in millimeters.</p> <h3> Print Settings</h3> <p><strong>Printer Brand:</strong></p> <p>Printrbot</p> <p><p class="detail-setting printer"><strong>Printer: </strong> <div><p>Simple Black</p></div><strong>Rafts:</strong></p> <p>Doesn't Matter</p> <p><p class="detail-setting supports"><strong>Supports: </strong> <div><p>No</p></div><strong>Resolution:</strong></p> <p>.2064mm</p> <p><p class="detail-setting infill"><strong>Infill: </strong> <div><p>15%</p></div></p> <p><strong>Notes:</strong></p> <p>Printed at .2064 to make sure the difference between 3 and 4 vote states was not lost. I only used 1 shell as each state's border is rendered separately. When I printed this on my printerbot, I scaled it to half size. In that case, the boundary between states that have the same number of votes (e.g. North/South Dakota) is faintly visible. There are technically gaps along the state borders, but at that scale they are lost to the print resolution.</p> <h3> How I Designed This</h3> <p>Started with this map: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:SVG_maps_of_the_United_States#/media/File:Blank_US_Map_48states.svg">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:SVG\_maps\_of\_the\_United\_States#/media/File:Blank\_US\_Map\_48states.svg</a></p> <p>I used Inkscape to clean up some of the details and added a border. From there, I imported it into Fusion 360 where it was quite easy to extrude each state based on its electoral vote count. Nebraska and Maine have a slightly different method of allocating electoral votes, but I just added them together in those cases.</p> </p></p></p> Category: Learning