Week (2) - Journal

I made abase then 2 squirrels stand by their sides as they holding the phone and there are 2 curves on the phone base to set the bottom of the phone on it to have a place to set on it while at the same time its diagonal on the squirrels.

firstly,

I start to sketch the squirrel by curves, arc, spline, and circles to sketch a cartoonish sketch of it then I extrude them. ( I started first by drawing the squirrel tummy using a curve tool then I started to draw its hip by drawing a circle and cutting it then I drew his leg with lines and curves and finally I drew his face, ears, eyes, and ears using circles and splines and after I finished it I started to define the t- slots and tabs places and started to draw them on the squirrel ).

• the squirrel height on fusion was ( 85mm)

secondly,

I sketch the base and sides by using tools like rectangles, lines and circles then I extrude them and assemble them with the squirrels by using joints. ( I started to draw a rectangle for the base which was ( 19mm * 195mm ) with the rectangle tool then I started to draw the engraved curves in it with a rectangle tool too then I started to define the t-slots circles and tabs in it to put the squirrels in it, then I started to draw the side with the line tool and put the t slots to it to could put it between the squirrels if I want to make it firmer or remove it when I don't want to put it between the squirrels because already the squirrels are fixed to the base anyways ).

• the base length was ( 19mm), while the base width was ( 195mm)

after I sketch my design, extrude them and assemble them by joints I started to import them to software Rd works and put them organized together with a little space between them to not waste a lot from the board then set the features of the design where the machine should cut and scan which:

• color mode - speed - power - output

• black cut 10 60 yes

• lilac scan 350 19 yes ( for the squirrel eyes )

• green scan 300 23 yes ( for the curves and base )

-then imported the design to the machine and start to cut it and it took me (8 minutes and 20 seconds) to cut the design on the laser cutting machine.

phone holder Rld file

Ahmed Waleed helped me to import my phone holder file because there was an extra line on the file which appear on rd works and hold all the design with it so he helped me to remove that line from the fusion first by cutting the shape and drawing it again that was the only solution that we reached.

( and I had to delete one of the squirrel's mouse lines because they were connected, I tried to separate them but it didn't work so I deleted one of them to avoid cutting both of them )

while we were cutting me and Doaa the laser machine started to track more than the design and didn't want to set the origin point but we started to erase our data and check it again and reset and then started from the first but it works after that.

I should focus on the machine settings first before starting to cut and prepare the final file before, to reach all the mistakes that I faced at that time.

the coolest thing I have learned this week was learning how to sketch on fusion software with dimensions and extrude that sketches and put joints to it was so cool.

the first task of that week was to make a phone holder with low fidelity:

at first, I didn't have a good material of cardboard so I didn't look good at first but after the session ended I give myself 5 minutes to make it from cardboard and I made that.

It is a mix between phone holder & pen holder (it looks like an elephant in a silhouette way and have a basic pen holder inside it )

the second task of week 2 was sketching a spinner on fusion software with a teammate:

and my teammate was Ahmed Waleed we made a middle circle and three circles around it by using circular pattern tool the start to make 3 circles around them to make the big curves of the spinner then cutting the parts that we don't need from it.

the third task of that week was to make a rocking chair with teammates:

my teammates were Lama & Hussien we divided the parts on us and I took the back part, Lama took the base and Hussien took the sides, so we sketch it with the dimensions that the instructor told us about then we extrude it and collect all of them on rd works software then imported to the laser cutting machine to cut them after that we collect all of them together with the screws, and we were the first team to finish :)

I followed the wardrobe tutorial after I watched the videos and I faced a lot with dimensions but finally I did it.

wardrobe Stl files