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)
the idea of this week's assignment is to design and print 3D pen holder using fusion360 then the 3D printer.
Pen holder
I googled "pen holder with fusion 360" and I found some cool designs, I really liked this one, and for the first look, I thought I couldn't make this! But it turns out if you follow the steps in this tutorial you can easily make one.
Tool Chain
Which software/machines/materials did you use in the assignment? Why?
MK2 3D Printer
material: PLA
I used Autodesk Fusion 360 for sketching & Ultimaker Cura to prepare the file to be printed.
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?
Design steps:
-At first I chose the plane on which I'm going to sketch, I chose the XY plane and used the stacking approach to design the holder.
-Then I created an offset plane to sketch a couple of polygons on two different planes.
-I made the last offset plane and drew the last sketch which is a circle with the same diameter as the first circle.
-Then I used the loft feature and connected the four sketches.
-I also used the fillet feature in the sides and the top of the design.
-Finally, I used the shell feature and changed the appearance of the holder.
-I added a base at the end to make sure it won't fall off.
Preparing the file for fabrication:
-I saved the file in STL format so I can import it in the Ultimaker Cura and sliced it.
-I rescaled the object to fit in less than one hour, I set the dimensions to be 40x40x65.
-Then I saved the file in gcode format to be ready for the printer.
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?
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-After preparing the file I copied the gcode file to the SD card of the printer.
-I chose my file from the control panel of the printer.
-I hit run and the machine started to heat and then it started printing the pen holder.
-I watched the first layer to make sure everything was good.
-I finally got my pen holder, small but still trying. :D
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?
I did ask for feedback because after scaling I thought the pen holder is to small to hold any pens. So I got a couple of good suggestions and I modified my design.
My original design.
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?
All the pen holders I saw in the search results looked difficult for me to create. so I searched for tutorials not just pictures so it would be simpler for me, and I found this tutorial which was very elaborate.
Final Project
How can you use the skills and knowledge that you've acquired this week in your final project?
Getting more familiar with 3D design and the fabrication process will help me to design and fabricate an enclosure for my project and any customized parts I might need.
WOW!
What is the coolest thing that you've learned this week? What is something that you will never forget from this week?
I love seeing the printer working, I still find it fascinating how the gcode works.
I learned some cool things about the printer from the fab lap specialist Noha, like how we can actually control the nozzle speed and depth on the bed and how that affects the quality of the objects that's been typed.
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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.
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