Week 3 Journal

Ideation

This week's assignment is to make our own design of a simple pen and pencil holder on Fusion 360 software and prepare it for cura

Inspiration:

I love geometric shapes a lot so I browsed Google and Pinterest to get inspired by the most suitable design for me.

Tool Chain

Software

Machines

Materials

Design/Preparation Process

Summary

First

I drew a square on the x-y axis, then I made a parallel plane, then I drew the same square, and then I made a loft, and then I opened the shape using a shell command.

secondly,

I made a parallel plane to x- z, then I painted a lot of oval shapes of different sizes, and then I worked an extrude cut. Then I made a fillet for the edges.

thirdly

You saved the design in stl format

3D printing processing

1-I Opened the file on the cura

2- I did a shape rotation.

3- I Adjust printing settings (draft, Infill, support)

4- I do a Slice to see how many minutes to print and how many grams

5- I Save the file in the form of g-code

printing settings

Draft : 0.2 mm Infill : 10% Support : NO printing temperature : 215

Development/Implementation Process

I take the memory card out of the machine and I insert it into my laptop. then I click export G- code from the slicer then I insert the card back into the machine then I wait for a second until the card inserted message appears then I select your file name then I instruct the machine to start printing.

Overcoming Challenges

I faced a problem while I was preparing for the 3D printing process when I made a preview of printing it was showing that the edges are not connected to each other and the appearance of holes in the body itself

Solution

I went back to Fusion 360 and reduced the measurement of the fillet in the edges instead of 1 cm to 0.5 cm to avoid the appearance of pieces in the edges during the printing process and also increased the thickness of the hologram as a whole to reduce the openings that appeared in the model during the erasing process

After the 3D printing process, I found that one of the surfaces has defects, as one of the ovals cut in the surface was very large and the angle of inclination was large.

The solution: reduce the aperture so that it adopts the overlap during the printing process, like the figure on the right side

Final Project

I learned this week how to use Fusion to draw 3D shapes and how to make a movement between the parts.

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

Assignment Design Files