Week 1 - 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)

Iron Man Shooting 3D Design

Iron Man on wall design

I love science fiction movies So I have chosen Iron Man to be the make of this week .

Tool Chain

Which software/machines/materials did you use in the assignment? Why?

For 3D I have used Cura to slice the STL design and Pursa I3 Mk2 3D Printer to print the design .

Cura is an easy to use software and the pursa I3 MK2 was the one available in the lap and it is pretty easy to use it .

I have used PLA to print the design with a red color .

For the Lazer Cut design I have used Lazer works software to send it to machine

LaserworkV6 Software

Cura

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?

Iron Man with supports added

For 3D Print design , I have download the stl design from the internet and the design for the iron man was kind of complicated because the arm needed a lot of supports when trying to slice it using cura , so I have add an extensin to cura called "custom support" and added supports to the hand as shown in the image .

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?

For Laser Cutting :

I have Imported the dxf file to laserworkv6 program .
I have enlarged the size to be much bigger using arrows .
all the design was cut , so it was pretty easy I have chosen the power to be 65 and speed to be 20 .

For 3D Printing :

I have download the STL design from the internet
Imported the design to CURA .
The design was iron man was having a lot of supports so I had to create the supports manually , I have download an extension for cura from the store called "Custom Support"
I have added supports to the hand of iron man using the the custom support extension .
I have done the slicing using cura and made sure that the slices of the design would be on top of each other .

Laserworkv6 design

Cura design for Iron Man

Overcoming Challenges

When you got stuck, what/who did you turn to? At what point did you have to pause to research or learn more before moving on? What are some mistakes, pitfalls, or challenges that others can avoid if they were doing this assignment?

I have used searing on google and I have found a video on youtube explaining the exact idea I have with adding supports to it .

https://youtu.be/N6w2KX-BUUk

Manual supports for Iron Man

Final Project

How can you use the skills and knowledge that you've acquired this week in your final project?

I will be using laser cutter to design the body of my final project idea .

WOW!

What is the coolest thing that you've learned this week? What is something that you will never forget from this week?

The coolest thing in this week is using the tools and fabricating the designs we seen on the laptops .

Laser Cutting Machine

Fabricated version of iron man

Assignment Design Files

Iron Man Laser Desing

Iron Man Shooting Stl Design

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