Week 2

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)

3d printed phone holder

It's an elephant phone holder. My friend Islam made it last week by 3d printer and it was a challenge for me to make it using laser cutting machine. I'd like to make it more useful by adding pencil case in it.

elephant phone holder

Tool Chain

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

Autodesk Fusion 360

To sketch the design and assembly parts together

Laser cutting machine

for fabrication of the design

3mm plywood

it provides great value for money, so I used it

Laser Works

for selecting the speed and power of cutting

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?

First : I sketch all the parts of my design .

second : I extrude them into 3mm.

Third : Added joints to assemble them.

Finally : Exported the sketches to DXF files to work on them in laserworks (right click on sketches then save as dxf)

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?

steps of the process :

1- I put my rld file to the Laser Cutter computer.

2- I turned on the machine.

3- Download the file.

4- Check the focus

5- Track frame.

6- Run.

laserwork

for assembling:

I used t-slots and tabs to assemble the parts from sides and I didn't need to make t-slots in the base because the elephant is fixed enough due to parts above each other

my elephant phone holder and desk organizer

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)

I was in problem with having all the sketch fully defined, my instructor Mohanad explained to me that the fully defined sketch should be concentrated about the origin point and all dimensions should be set with respect to the origin point.

As my project include arcs, I made centerlines (construction lines) in order to add dimensions of all arcs with respect to the origin point.

Final Project

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

I learned how tabs and slots are important in fixing any part in addition to screw joints and probably I will use them in my project.

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 was when we made the rocking chair and it worked properly!

I will never forget how to assemble many parts together using tabs and slots to be a final product.

rocking chair.mp4

rocking chair

Assignment Design Files

elephant phone holder.f3d

files.dxf

file.rld

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