Week III - Journal
Ideation
Tell us about your assignment's idea for this week. Why do you care about this idea? What inspired you? (Please include images or links to sources of inspiration)
A pen holder inspired by our little turtle (Tota) and the holes that hold pens liKe turtle back shell
Tool Chain
Which software/machines/materials did you use in the assignment? Why?
fusion 360 for designing the model
PLA filament
Prusa Mk3 3d printer
Cura ultimaker for slicing
Design/Preparation Process
Explain the design and/or preparation process of your assignment. How did you use the tool or software to design and/or prepare your assignment before fabrication/implementation?
choose XY plane then draw the basic scketch
construct an offset plane parallel to the XY plane at a distance of 60mm from it then draw the same pattern but with a larger scale
apply lofting and shelling to corresponding hexagons and repeat these two steps for all hexagons
extrude the base 2mm
revolve half the base by 180 degrees and choose intersect property to get the shape of turtle shell
revolve head, tail, and legs of the turtle
1- save the design as STL file to be opened on the slicer software ( Ultimaker cura )
2- adjust the scale to be printed within the required conditions
3- start slicing
layer height 0.2 mm, infill 20 %
tempreature of the nozzle is 215 degree.
building plate temp. 60 degree
4- there is no need to build supports
5 - save the result as gcode file to be printed
Development/Implementation Process
Explain the development/implementation process of your assignment. How did you use the machine/tool to manufacture or implement the design of your assignment?
1- prepare the gcode file after checking all parameters and adjust them to fulfill the required condition in the resulted product
2- unload the filament and reload another filament with needed color
3- cleaning the building plate
4- start printing the file of the model
5- check the first layers to make sure there were no problems and the printing process is running properly
5- after finishing printing remove the body from building plate then remove the brim adhesion of the base
Overcoming Challenges
What kinds of challenges or problems did you face while doing the assignment, tutorials, or exercises? How did you solve them? Did you ask for help from an instructor or peer? Please provide a link to the tutorial or article that you used to solve your problem (if any)
1- lofting and shelling all hexagons and joining them without merging the walls (solved by try and error)
2- join all parts to form one body (solved by try and error)
3- no need for brim adhesion I think the skirt adhesion will be enough or maybe none
Final Project
How can you use the skills and knowledge that you've acquired this week in your final project?
checking the efficiency of the pen holder
fabricated vs reaL
WOW!
What is the coolest thing that you've learned this week? What is something that you will never forget from this week?
to explore the way i can design shape like the shell of the turtle using revolvig semi ellipse with intersect property and find this method by my self shapesIrevolvingintersectingfind
Weekly Digest [OPTIONAL]
Tell us about any other cool things that you've made this week: in the Hands-on activity, tutorial examples, exercises, or any other cool mini-project that you tried out aside from the assignment.
design a lego man body and head from a given sketch with given dimensions