School has started up again, and with that comes a new season of notebooking. My team has started brainstorming ideas, and I have been recording them in our notebook. All was going well until we started designing the robot in CAD (inventor).
The problem is that I am unsure of how to put photos/media in my notebook. My teammate suggested getting the photos printed out from Walgreens, but this would stipulate having to wait until the days before the competition to get them all printed out (easier to do and cheaper). This would mean that I would have to plan my notebook around how bit I think the photos are going to be. If they are smaller, no problem. But if they are too big, that becomes a problem.
So my question is, how do you go about printing and putting photos in your notebook? Last season we had an online notebook so we did not run into this problem, but I wanted to try a physical one for this season to see if it was any better than our online one last season.
Ive found just printing them out yourself works. In Word you can determine the sizes of your images to the hundreds place and if you have a grid notebook it makes measuring and knowing how big each picture needs to be really easy. I suggest saving it as a pdf before printing so your pics dont shift around. We got the graphic design club at my school to print out our pictures for us near the end of last season and it comes out really high quality so see if your school or library has a printing service its like a few cents per page and imo completely worth. Elmer’s gluesticks work well for sticking the pictures in but you can also invest in archival gluesticks or something.
idk how youre doing your pictures in the notebook but that doesnt really matter unless youre planning to cover a whole page in one image. in that case i’d split the image and print it on two sheets, then piece it together in the notebook when gluing it in. Our notebook was 9.25x11.75in and here is a sample of how i put in pictures.
No what I mean is that the notebook page size is bigger than a standard piece of printer paper. So after I size it in word, it will end up being smaller than what I had originally intended it to be, thus making it harder to plan my notebook around the images.
the units of measurement would be the same no matter the size of the paper?? like if you leave a 2x3 inch space blank in your notebook, size a picture to be 2x3 inches in word. if you type in a size to crop itll size it so when you print itll be that big
One thing that is missing in the useful advice presented about pasting in external media - make sure to sign and date the things you glued in. It is part of the traditional notebook process and is evidence of things removed and added out of chronological order.
Also, cross off unused part of page (visual way of saying “this part of the page is intentionally left blank”). Do this systematically so there is no question you are documenting your journey chronologically.
Have you worked with Drawing Views in Inventor? It has a number of presentation settings and options that let you display certain features of the assembly. I use an exploded view for training. A benefit is If you hide parts in the View it doesn’t affect the actual CAD assembly. Also, you can export the views, with notations, measurements, and at whatever paper size and format you need.
Another thing (If you have the money) is buying a small photo printer that BlueTooth connets to your phone. This way you have a maximum size thats already told to you. However, buying new cartridges could pile up in cost.
Sorry if this has been asked-and-answered already. Has there been any indication whether electronic ENs (e.g. Google Docs) will be considered as “bound” for Tipping Point as they were for Change Up?
To clarify – the choice EPs have is between in-person and remote judging. This effects the format notebooks must be submitted in but not the format they’re created in. Digital notebooks are still allowed at events with traditional in-person judging, they just need to be printed out and submitted on paper.
