Week #1 - Journal

I'm in love with keychains so I decided to search for a cute one for my laser cut assignment as my inspiration to put it with my other keychains with no keys ;')
I searched using: 3 axis

As a nervous person, I needed something to calm me down so this was my inspiration in search and I looked for it using: thingiverse

for 3D printing:
software: ultimaker cura to prepare the files and save it as g code so the machine understands it
machine: Prusa i3 mk3 which is used in ODC
material: PLA

for Laser cutting:
software: RDWorks to prepare the files for laser cutting and set the parameters of cut and speed
machine: EL MALKY ML1390 laser cutter
material: 3mm Plywood

laser cut:
I used RDWorks to get my Godzilla ready
for speed cut and making a line without cutting I set the power to 60 but increased the speed to 300

for cut the power was 60 and the speed was 10

for scan I selected all the closed shapes to engrave it and set the power to 15 and speed to 100

link to file: Godzila

3D:
first of all I selected Prusa i3 mk3 machine, the filament: pla, layer height: 0.15 mm because I needed it in high resolution, Infill: 40% then I downed it to 20% and it was fine
I rescaled the model to 52% to fit the time
It didn't need support but it might've needed adhesion which I haven't added and realised during fabrication when I found the part off the bed in some points
after slicing it said it would take 1 h 13 mins and 6 g of filament.
Finally I clicked save to disk and saved it in g code to get it ready to be copied to prusa to be fabricated
link to file: nested gear
but this one is better and works great ;) : gear bearing

Cutie Godzilla ;)

My spinny piny ^_^

laser cutting Godzilla which took 41 secs

after a lot of work, it moves. Yeah, it doesn't spin as expected but it moves =D

Preparing dxf file using RDWorks