Week 1 - 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)

For week 1 we were asked to come up with already made open source designs to get familiar with the fabrication tools including 3D printing and laser cutter and how to actually prepare the files to transfer them to these machines.

I was actually pretty excited for this week assignment because this is my first time using this fabrication methods

recording at the assignment Requirements I chose design and downloads it from those sites

Thingiverse

3axis.co

This is my model for the laser-cutter , I choose this one because I love The Smurfs how there are cute and funny and I see a lot of dietals on this design I can make further I learn it on it .

This is my choosen model for the 3D-Printer , I choose this model because I am obssesed with owl just Imagine having such a beautiful mini owl on your desk that's pretty awesome to me.

Tool Chain

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

USED SOFTWARES

Ultimaker Cura 4.13.2

RdWork Software V8

MACHINES

ElMalky ML1390 CO2 Laser Cutter

PRUSA i3 MK2

3D Printer

MATERIALS

For the 3D printer PLA filament

For the Laser Cutter Plywood sheet (3 mm. thickness)

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?

First of all let me take through our design process and since this week we weren't required to make the design ourself I downloaded one from an opensource library

I acquired my laser cutter design from 3axis.com and here's the link :

Laser Cut Branch Gnome Wall Decor DXF File Free Download - 3axis.co

I acquired my 3D printed design from Thingiverse and here's the link :

owl facing front by BrOncO - Thingiverse

Let me take you through my prerartion process

I used leaser work software to cutting design in the first I downloaded from the site and rescaled then select the outline to be cutter with black color then I chose the area I want it to be draw cut line and selected with blue color then I select area with red color. I was changing speed and power for black I was using speed 30 power 50 to cut the edge.for blue color i was using speed 300power 20 for draw line .for red color to scan it I was using speed300 power 25.

Here I was preparing my file I was resizing the module from scale tool with mark on uniform scaling to keep the proportions I chose the printer (prusaI3 Mk2) I did some adjustment from the draft bar I adjusted the quality to 0.2 .i did not support it as it was not necessary finally I did a last cheek on preview to see how much time it will take and it is weight.

My used parameters for the printer :

Material: 1 gm

Time: 14min

Layer height : 0.2 mm

Infill 15%

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?

WhatsApp Video 2023-02-01 at 8.00.03 PM.mp4

Here our machine was adding the final touches finally

Here the machine finishing print

this is the actual size

Here is a photo of our process, here the laser cutter was doing its job and just tracing the outer line of my shape with the laser beam to cut it

WhatsApp Video 2023-02-01 at 8.01.40 PM.mp4

Here is a video showing our process step by step starting by preparing our cutter till the final model

Finally, I take a pic at how many times my file toke

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)

Here when I cut it there is the part I didn't realize takes a cut line, not engraver but I fixed it

I have stuck it by tape

Final Project

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

I was so happy when I see it real not only digital

here also I was super happy this was the first time i used 3dprinting

WOW!

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

Check every line before sending the file to laser cutting also make a simulation before doing any thing

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 was learning how to make the cut line, engrave lines and draw lines it was an exciting exercise, and I how to use 3dprintg

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