I love animal prints so I decided to make zebra earrings with a lot of diamonds.

Tutorial

I made a circle with a radius of 30 mm. (Sketch > Circle)

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Here I offset the circle ( Sketch > Offset) and sketched some zebra lines ( Sketch > Spline)

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I made a circle for the hole so the ear hanger can go in.

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I extruded the earring with 8 mm.

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On the side of the earring I sketched a circle for the diamonds to be inserted.

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I extruded the circle so it is now a new body that we can use for multiplying the circle for the entire earring. I moved the extruded circle with -1mm inside the earring. Later on I combined the extruded circle with the earring using operation Cut and keeping the tool.

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To multiply the circle or making a pattern around the hole earring, I clicked on Create > Pattern > Circular pattern.

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Now I need to remove those bodies that you see around the earring. First I combined the bodies and used the same operation, operation Cut. This time I did not keep the tools because I don't need them anymore.

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Because I want the middle part to be white, I need to slice the earring in three. I sketched 2 horizontal lines.

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Now we see three parts but they are still connected. In order to get three separate parts, I need to split the body. (Modify > Split Body).

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On the left you see now three bodies: Zebra1, Zebra2 and Middle. So splitting the body succeeded. I clicked on Zebra1 and Zebra2 to hide them in order for me to see body Middle. The middle one needs to be fully extruded.

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Now the earring is ready.

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Printing the earrings

It failed in the beginning and somewhere in the middle of the process. My 3D printer didn't want to cooperate with me. It took me another 2 hours on top till I got the satisfying result.