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)

Pen & Pencil Holder

The assignment idea is to design and fabricate a pen & pencil holder by using Fusion 360 and print it using the 3D Printer.

I wanted to do something special for this project, so I chose the wooden barrel inspired by games.

TOOL CHAIN

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

DESIGN ↓

Fusion360 (Program

SLICE ↓

Ultimaker Cura (Program)

PRINT ↓

Prusa (3D Printer)

MATERIAL ↓

Pla (Black Color)

SANDING ↓

Fine sandpaper

COLORING ↓

Cotton Swabs -

deco markers

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?

1st part

1st part:

I got the dimensions for the design after measuring the pencil tall size to make sure of base stability.
I made a centerline as a construction line. make an arch as 3 points then make ( 2 ) offset to make the sketch of the outer metal frame.
Revolved the shape at 360 degrees.

2nd part:

Made the base by adding a new sketch with a 70mm circle on the barrel side.
Made a centerline, then make offset twice 0.2mm each (one on its right and the other on left).
Extrude then circle pattern (16 Pieces)
Made combine (cut).
Extruded the outer metal frame.
Extruded the base (-3 mm) inside.
Moved the Base (10mm) inside.

2nd part

3rd part

3rd part:

Made Offset Plane (50mm) above the base and made a circle with Extrude (3mm).
on the same circle, I draw (4) other small circles with (12mm) by the circular pattern feature.
Extruded these small circles to cut from the main support.
as the upcoming capture images show the remains of the 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?

Fusion360 (Program)

I exported the Project as ( .stl)

Ultimaker Cura (Program)

I opened and sliced the project then save to the SD card and its ready for print

VID_20220201_141302.mp4

COMMUNITY OF LEARNING

Did you ask for feedback? What are the ideas that others have contributed or suggested? What was someone else’s idea that you built upon? How did you help your peers? How did your peers help you?

PROBLEM: I can't save the project as (.stl)

I tried to check for a solution in #Community-troubleshooting and knew that I should choose (save as Mesh) then change the format to (.stl) from the opened window.

OVERCOMING CHALLENGES

When you got stuck, what/who did you turn to? At what point did you have to pause to research or learn more before moving on? What are some mistakes, pitfalls, or challenges that others can avoid if they were doing this assignment?

When I sketched the design of this project in my mind it was hard for me to make the pen stable in the holder without falling, then I decided to make support under the middle of the Parrel to make it some heavy, also make the small circles in it just (12mm) to make sure that the pen will be more vertical and won't fall.

FINAL PROJECT

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

Camera slider

After making this project, the interface of Fusion 360 became clearer and I'm sure after more practice, it will be easy to design any idea that helps to make my project more effective and lower budget as my final project consists of 3D Printed parties.

WOW !

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

The coolest thing I have learned this week is that I will get an answer for most things by focusing on searching for them in the right way.

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.

The Tallest Paper Tower

My team won (Physically 😂) as we focused on the base