Journal

WEEK 3

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)

Inspiration from Pinterest

I love minimalism so I decided to design a single pen holder suitable for graphic or traditional pens

Tool Chain

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

Machines:

3D Printer:
Technical Specs: Build volume: 250mm wide, 210mm deep and 200 mm tall ,Layer height: 0.05 – 0.35 mm, Nozzle Diameter: 0.4mm, and Max hotend/heatbed temp.: 300 °C / 110 °C

I used it to make a single pen holder

Materials:

PLA: 'PLA is a very common material used in 3d printing because of loose temperature requirements during extrusion' according to Future Electronics Egypt

Softwares:

Ultimaker Cura : according to Wikipedia : 'Cura is an open source slicing application for 3D printers. It was created by David Braam who was later employed by Ultimaker, a 3D printer manufacturing company, to maintain the software. Cura is available under LGPLv3 license. Cura was initially released under the open source Affero General Public License version 3, but on 28 September 2017 the license was changed to LGPLv3.This change allowed for more integration with third-party CAD applications.Development is hosted on GitHub. Ultimaker Cura is used by over one million users worldwide and handles 1.4 million print jobs per week. It is the preferred 3D printing software for Ultimaker 3D printers, but it can be used with other printers as well. '

I used it to calculate the time of amountof material used and to slice the model virtually

Autodesk Fusion 360 Educational license: Fusion 360 is the first and only integrated cloud CAD, CAM, CAE, and PCB software platform of its kind

I used it for sketching 3d model

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?

I took measurements of my favorite pen then I drew this design using Fit point spline feature then draw a center line for revolving
doing revolving to the sketch
drawing rectangle
extruding the rectangle (working as a base)
drawing circle
using the circle for cutting feature related to extruding option

7. filleting step to the object

8. editing appearance

to white plastics

9. exporting the STL file

10.Using Ultimaker Cura to adjust the parameters ( 10% infill- 0.3 mm layer height - no support - no adhesion ) estimate time and material amount and preview silcing

slicing video here

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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?

Exporting the gcode file after Using Ultimaker Cura to adjust the parameters ( 10% infill- 0.3 mm layer height - no support - no adhesion ) estimate time and material amount and preview silcing
Use memory card to start 3d printing process
preheat the device
load the file
Enjoy waiting until finishing the model printing. it was 1 hour and 7 mins, 19 grams

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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 have trials to design the model but I can't fit the requirements like 2 method for 3d transformation
I tried a lot and combine the ideas of designs so I can fit the requirement

so I decided to combine:

cut option through drawing circle and choose cut option from extrude option
extruding the base
revolving the main sketch

by the end the problem solved so it can fit the requirements without losing my favorite design objectives

Final Project

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

Using fusion for designing 3d objects for printing may help in building construction parts of final 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 paper tower activity

Assignment Design Files

stl file

gcode file

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