Plasticity‍

One of the coolest toys we had as kids was the Zzzoom-it from Matel. My two brothers and I spent coutless hours shooting each other with the miniature frisbee like discs the Zzzoom-its fired. We quickly worked out that the more rubber bands we put on the Zzzoom-it, the faster and further they would fire. Unfortunately like a lot of things from our youth, these toys have not been in production for decades. If you are lucky you can occassionally find a secondhand one on eBay. I decided however to relive my youth by designing my own version and 3D printing it. The ideal software to use for this project was Plasticity. As a CAD application it allowed me to use accurate dimensioning which was necessary to ensure exact fitting parts and a fully functioning print. I scoured the net for images of the Zzzoom-it and set about designing it in Plasticity. This was the first major model I had made in Plasticity (at the time it was fairly new software and still in beta) but I soon realised this was one of the coolest 3D applications I had ever used.