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Ideation
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)
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)
This week's assignment is making a mobile holder. I browsed the internet for some ideas of mobile holders. I selected a simple one and tried to imagine my own version.
I played with some paper cards to build my mobile holder and try the different options before design.
Tool Chain
Tool Chain
Which software/machines/materials did you use in the assignment? Why?
Which software/machines/materials did you use in the assignment? Why?
- I got some paper cards and did some experiments to best imagine my choosed mobile holder.
- I started using Autodesk Fusion 360 to implement my model design as I imagined it for paper cards.
- I transferred to LaserWork SW to process the DXF file and export the RDL file suitable for a laser cutter machine.
- The design ends at the PC connected to the Laser Cutter Machine to feed the machine by the instructions needed for making the mobile holder.
Design/Preparation Process
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?
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?
- Preparing the idea: I used some paper cards to imagine the idea better as a real thing between my hands instead of letting it in my head. One of main concerns was the place for T-Slot that will fix the main back with the main base.
- Preparing the design of the model:
* It was my first personal step between me and Fusion 360. It took me some trials to install it successfully on my PC.
* My design depends mainly on rectangles. The main back for the holder is the main rectangle and it was one of creating objects ready defined by Fusion 360.
* The main base is a series of three rectangles like a bird: two wings and a head.
* Even the T-Slot is a series of rectangles embedded with the main base.
* I tried a little touch far from the rectangles. I designed a smiley face on the main back.
* The smiley face is composed of two circles, a rectangle and two circles one inside the other for the smile.
* I sketched the two parts within one sketch and at the end I exported the sketch as a DXF file.
Preparing DXF file for laser cutter machine.
Assembly
Extrude
Assembly.
setting power and speed for laser work.
Playing with some cards.
Exporting RDL file.
Development/Implementation Process
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?
Explain the development/implementation process of your assignment. How did you use the machine/tool to manufacture or implement the design of your assignment?
- The beginning point here is the DXF I got for Fusion 360 SW.
- The main star here is LaserWork SW.
- I imported a DXF file to LaserWork and I reviewed the simple design lines. Very simple.
- The black lines will be the borders used by the machine to materialize this design into a piece between my hands.
- I exported the design into an RDL file ready for the Laser Cutter Machine.
- The RDL will enter the PC connected by the machine that will do most of the work.
- I set the speed with specialist to 35 and power in range between 65 - 75.
Laser cutter do its job.
The product.
Overcoming Challenges
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)
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)
- It took me some trials to install Fusion 360 and this time accumulate the work. It was not as hard as I thought to begin my first steps within the app.
- The main need in the selected model is simplicity to overcome the first barriers with Fusion 360.
- I got The mobile holder successfully but the t-slot position was not the perfect. I can not fix the nail as designed and I have to eat some millimeters from the wood sheet. I has to be more careful about these parts next time.
- I have to redesign the holder to make and make t-slot +3mm farther to overthrough the width of holder main back.
Removing 3mm from t-slot.
The perfect design the t-slot should be +3mm.
Final Project
Final Project
How can you use the skills and knowledge that you've acquired this week in your final project?
How can you use the skills and knowledge that you've acquired this week in your final project?
- I think the main body for my final project will be like a box and I will utilize my Fusion 360 skills in building the box side by side.
WOW!
WOW!
What is the coolest thing that you've learned this week? What is something that you will never forget from this week?
What is the coolest thing that you've learned this week? What is something that you will never forget from this week?
- I think that I broke some of the barriers between ma and Fusion 360. I hope I will get the final product right.
Weekly Digest [OPTIONAL]
Weekly Digest [OPTIONAL]
Tell us about any other cool things that you've made this week: in the Hands-on activity, tutorial examples, exercises, or any other cool mini-project that you tried out aside from the assignment.
Tell us about any other cool things that you've made this week: in the Hands-on activity, tutorial examples, exercises, or any other cool mini-project that you tried out aside from the assignment.
- I enjoyed in-lab session and the interacting with our lovely instructors and the work with my colleagues within the group.
Assignment Design Files
Assignment Design Files
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