the idea is original, inspired by the greek culture and the beautiful greek goddess (Medusa) and her miserable destiny which I truly love in a nutshell medusa was very beautiful even more than athina they said , athina got jealous of her so turned her worshiper medusa to this form of gorgons that has got a hair of snakes and eyes turn anyone looks at them to stone
medusa rodanini
one of easiest cad softwares i worked with
first picked my desired pic then imported it to inkscape to convert it
exporting the tracing to dxf. format
imported the dxf. to fusion 360
tracing the DXF. manually with curves and splines in fusion 360 to make a closed loop to be extruded then
then started to design what i imagined with the right dimensions
-after importing the file sterted to sketch my own design and set the medusa head in middle of the design
before assembly extruded the sketch to 3mm thickness (as the thickness of the used wood sheets )
aligned the parts then used rigid joints to get the final view of the product
assembly is a very important step which I learned the hard way (when I designed and fabricated without proper assembly the product was in incorrect dimensions and failed )
after assembly and looking for any design mistakes or intersections
or any kind of problems, then exporting the DXF. files after viewing and double check the dimensions.
then imported the DXF. files to RDworks to align on the program and set the parameters for the proper cutting process, to use most of the wood sheet without wasting much make the designs closer to each other as possible as you can.
-then save or export the code to flash memory to be inserted later in the laser cutter machine.
with some help from the fab lab specialist I used the laser cutting machine easily and fabricated my designs
oriented the designs in rdworks and prepared the files to be uploaded to the machine ...got the flash memory... copied the files and inserted it into the machine
-first set the origin on the wood sheet in the machine
- read mem then copy your file to the machine using the UI and buttons of the machine
-copy the file to machine mem then track to know if it fits in the wood sheet
- if the file fits the sheet then check focus of the laser head
- final step start cutting and close the lid and stay focused in case anything happend wrong
the first challenge I had was copying the file to the machine mem to start the cutting but thankfully the lab specialist helped me through the process and completed the cutting process without burnings the hell out of the lab
-the problem was to get out of curtain menu in the UI then the specialist showed me ESC button which I didn't notice
another challenge I had was when fabricating the rocking chair in the lab session.
the problem we face was after cutting the design and fabricating it, it turned out there is an issue in the design after, and didn't notice there is an error in the design then my peer and the instructor figured out where the issue then edited it in the design.
this mistake learned me to look for any error in the assembly step and how important it is to get the desired result of manufacturing.
solution: to avoid the same mistake focus on the assembly in fusion 360 to get the great result that you looking for.
peers: Eslam Salah, Hanaa ezzat
instructors Mohand, Menna Elbadry
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