Week 01 - 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)

When I started to search on google about 3d and 2d designs, I fell in love with many many designs that I wanted to work on.

Laser cutting designs that I loved and took inspiration from the middle one as I made a coaster.

And these are 3D printing designs that I liked

Because I know that I have to choose only one for laser cut and one another for 3d printing, I decided to choose what I can give for my family as a gift :)

The fancy coaster that I decided to get

The little heart what I choosed :D

Tool Chain

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

The machines

I used CNC laser cutting machine to cut the glasses frame. And I used 3d printer "Prusa i3 MK2" to print the glasses' arms.

The soft-wares

Of course, I used LaserWork and Cura to work on the DXF and STL files, then I went to our wonderful lab to work on laser cuter and Pursa 3D printer to finalize my work.

The materials

I used mdf, PLA and silver spray paint as materials for my product.

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?

From 3axis to LaserWork, and from Cults to Cura I prepared my beloved designs to be in my hand.

Coaster - Laser cut

I downloaded the DXF file.
Then import it to Laser works to run the laser cutter.
I adjusted the scan "engraving" power: 30, speed: 300.
I adjusted the cut power: 65, speed: 30.

Coaster Design

Parameters

Simulation

Geometric Heart - 3D Printer

I downloaded the STL file.
Then import it to cura to run the 3d printer.
I exported the file to the 3d printer by the gcode file.
I adjusted the infilling: 10, layer-hot "temperature": 215, scaling, extra fast: 20 mins-3g.
I used support and didn't use prim.

Heart design

Parameters

Slicing

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?

Geometric Heart - 3D Printer

At the begging I checked with the specialist the overall settings to make sure all is well.
At the begging I selected the red PLA for the printer.
I put the gcode file, which is imported from cura, on the memory card.
I adjusted the infilling: 10, layer-hot "temperature": 215, scaling, extra fast: 20 mins-3g. And I started printing.
The 3d printer started to make its nozzle.

At the begging I checked with the specialist the overall settings to make sure all is well.
I connected the PC with the machine and copied the file to it.
after adjusting the measurements, I chose the areas to be cut.
I adjusting parameters for the cut : properties of speed: 30, and power: 65.
I saved the file as .rd.
In the laser cutter, I prepared the machine for start working as I put the wooden sheet, placed the origin point and checked the focus and let it work.
When I finished the coaster I brushed it with black color.

Then I moved to the printer to see my little beautiful heart :) to get the final amazing first products in my life. Finally, I gave the coaster and the heart to my mom and my wife as a gift and they surprised <3

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)

After finishing cutting, the coaster didn't be cut because of malfunction of the wood, the specialist advised me to re-cut again on the original one and all is done :). But the engraving part (circles) became so weak as the machine worked on it twice.

Final Project

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

Because I believe it's Integrated journey, while I was working on this project, I imagined many times how can I find easily cool designs to 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?

I never imagined that the digital fab will be to me a magic world like I feel now. I daily see many of inspired designs of the makers around the world and I joined some cool groups on many social networks.

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.

I loved the idea of Hands on itself, I got inspired from many of them.

Also we made the week activity which was implementing laser cutting and 3d printing.

The activity is to cut the dog on laser cutting machine and set the speed and the power and make it ready to cut it on the laser machine.

The activity is to make a dinosaur and set the layer height, position, infill and if needs any support. We faced a problem that there are voids between the layers but this is due to the the layer height.

Assignment Design Files

Coaster DXF

Heart Gcode

Heart STL

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