Week 1 - Journal

my friends are big part of my life so I selected a design to make a keys medal and adjusted the design and added a place inside to put their photos to be with me in my first laser cutter model.

https://3axis.co/laser-cut-snowflake-shaped-photo-frame-dxf-file/eoxl3j4o/

I love space and planets so much. so I want to design our plant Earth on 3D printer.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1750333

For 3d printing stl formate were downloaded. a Thingiverse model. the model was scaled to reach the targeted time and size and the material was selected generic PLA and the printer settings was adjusted. then the model was sliced and a gcode file was exported.

in 3D printing model

I downloaded STL file again and edit on cura

Dimension 50×50×50

Infill 20

Quality .3

Then saved as gcode to be transferred to the 3D machine.

It took about l hours and 7grams.

exporting DXF on laser work add some edit in design as we show in preparation process .

• power 65 to 70

• speed 25

then downloaded to the machine.

At first I had trouble downloading the program and Marram helped me. The other problem was printer time, so I had two solutions. The first reduces dimensions or reduces quality. I chose to reduce dimensions to 95% to maintain product quality.

I had a problem with printing that the temperature was 200 within the gcode and should be 215. This problem leads the model to move from its location and the model is not properly formed.

Unfortunately I don't have the stl file to edit so I had to download the file again and edit it in the cure program.