Week #3 - Journal

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)

we had to design a model to fabricate it on the 3d printer. it is a pen holder

this is the model I chose to make. it is very easy to design. I chose this model because it is simple and has a unique shape which attracted me.

Tool Chain

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

I used fusion360 software to design for fabrication

for the last part :

the software used is ultimaker cura

the machine used is prusa i3 Mk3/MK3s

the material used is grey PLA filament

preparation

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 used fusion 360 to make a circle of diameter 65

then i made an offset plane of 35 mm high

then i made a hexagon and another hexagon but different in position and in different planes above each other by 35mm

i added a circle in another offset plane.

then used the loft function

the loft

I made a 3mm fillet in mostly all the sides .

then I used the shell function to make it as a hollow.

shelling

after fillets

now, that is the final design after coloring some sides.

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?

after slicing using this features :

layer height 0.2

infill 10

scale 60%

time to fabricate 1 hour 22 min

17 grams

for the 3d printing part :

first I sent the gcode to the memory card then inserted the memory card to the printer and chose the file then the process began

it started to heat till 215 degree then the machine tested if there anything unusual in the pad then started to fabricate the figure

WhatsApp Video 2022-08-11 at 6.16.33 AM.mp4

as shown in the figures, the file was succesfully fabricated and made its desired purpose (holding a mobile)

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)

one problem I faced was scaling down the design to fit in the required time. it made it too short to hold pens or to big to fit in the time

after some attempts i was able to do it

the first parameters was

it was 6 hours 27 minutes so i scaled it down many times till I finally chose to scale down for 60% of the original parameters and then the problem was fixed

Final Project

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

getting to know how to design 3D designs will surely help me in my 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?

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.

Assignment Design Files

final.stl

gcode

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