DeeDee Han: Pusheen the Cat

I created a SolidWorks model of my favorite fat cat Pusheen and 3D printed a copy. She is extremely popular in Facebook stickers and Tumblr, and even has her own website.

I created the design in SolidWorks, using fillets to round her body, tail, feet, ears, mouth, and eyes. I created her tail by using the flex feature, bending a cylinder and attaching it to her body. I created her mouth by drawing 3 splines. I printed Pusheen with her back to the print bed, and turned supports on so that the printer could provide supports for her tail and top feet. These supports were easy to remove once she was done printing. The whiskers are some wire that I glued on after 3D printing, since the whiskers are so thin that supports would be difficult to remove without breaking the whiskers off.

Pusheen is well-known for being round, wide, and not proportionally sized. For example, her feet, ears, and tail are very disproportionally small compared to the size of her body. This contributes to her adorableness, which I have modeled as closely as I can to the original.