Week #2

The idea is to create unique and stylish glasses that stand out.

I care about this idea because I already wear glasses and love them, and nowadays glasses are not only for medical purposes but also for fashion.

I am inspired by classic round glasses and modern ones with innovative features.

SOFTWARE

Designing using Fusion 360

• I made the sketching of the front face with suitable dimensions of the human face and made it fully defined.

• Then, I extruded the sketch by 3mm.

• I made the first arm, then used the mirror to make the second one on the other side.

• I used fillets to make the sharp edges smooth enough.

• Finally, I inserted screws and nuts and made joints with the glasses to make sure that they would be assembled well after fabrication. 

Slicing using Ultimaker Cura

• Open Ultimaker Cura, choose the Prusa i3 Mk2 printer, and the kind of filament (PLA).

• Importing the design into Cura software.

• choosing the best orientation to minimize the time and support.

• setting up the setting of  printing to be:

Profile hight => 0.2 mm

Infill density => 50%

Supports      => everywhere

Adhesion     => off

• Slicing to know how much it takes.

• Saving the file as gcode.
  
  
  

3D Printing

• I first chose the preferred color of the filament for the printing which is blue then changed the existing one with the blue one.

• Then, know the temperature range for this filament from the ticket on it (190:210 C) and set up the temperature from the Cura software.
  
  

• I put the SD card on a 3D printer and chose my file.

• It began first with heating the bed and nozzle to 210 C, calibrating, and then starting the printing.

• Using alcohol to remove the part out of the bed, tools like pliers and files to remove supports.

Laser cutting

• After preparing the design in RDWorks, I downloaded it on the laser cutting machine.

• Next, I put a 3mm plywood sheet on the machine and secured it with 4 pieces of wood.

• Then, I placed the new origin by moving the laser head and testing the frame to make sure it was suitable.

• Finally, I pressed start to begin printing the design. The process took about 1 minute. 

I was confused on how to mirror a 3D Part (Arm1)

Solution: I searched online and found a video that discusses this idea.

The front face was not fully defined and I tried a lot to know why the circle on the right was not defined but I did not know.

Solution: The Center line in the middle was not defined and I had to define it and remove the mirror objects then make it again.

I've come to understand the value and benefits of documentation, and this has made me more comfortable with documenting.

My documentation became slightly better than in weeks 0 and 1, and this thing makes me happy😀