Week #3

Journal

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)

Now , I gonna make a pen holder .

I study in FACULTY OF APPLIED ARTS so I have many tools that need to be arranged specially pens as I use different types of them , so I wanna some thing helping me to arrange them to make it easier when I need someone of them .

Tool Chain

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

_ Software

For designing

For laser cutting

_ Machines

For laser cutting

_ Materials

plywood

for laser cutting

M 3 screws

for attachment

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?

Firstly, Designing the front frame

using fusion 360 :

I started sketching the faces of the pen holder one by one ( using rectangle and circle ) .

Without forgetting to make sure that the sketch was fully defined .
Made the joints places * using T_slot

Extruded the sketches and copy & paste similar parts ( front & back and 2 sides ) .
Jointed them together starting with the bottom to the top . And checked the interference to make sure that they have jointed successfully .
Saved each face of the design in * DXF format .

5 . using laser work :

Imported my DXF file
Set the settings of color , speed and power .
Saved the file in *AI format .
took it on my memory card .

1 . Sketches

2 . Extrude

3 . Joints

4 . Save

5 . Laser works

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?

For laser cutter :

I turned the machine on
Opened my file on the PC connected to the machine
Checked its settings again (color , speed , power)
Downloaded my file

Went to the machine ,

specified the starting point using arrows and enter
Tested the focus by pressing pulse
Tested the frame of the design by pressing frame
After finishing preparation pressed start

Waited to get my pen holder🎉😍

finally...

For attachment :

Bring the faces ( bottom , top , tow sides , front and back ) and screws .
Using t_slot joints to collect the pen hlolder .
Using the screws to attach then together .

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)

According to joints ( t_slots & brackets ) :

T _slots : sometimes the dimensions do not fit in its right place , so during jointing I found that they do not set in its place .

To solve that : Our instructors in the EOWeek session told us about the interference which helps us to check the correctness of the assembly .

Final Project

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

At this week we learned how to make an assembly , and usually when we design something that has many parts , it be designed individually then need to be assembled then jointed . So of course we will need to use this technique in the final project as it will contain many components.

WOW!

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

For Brackets : when we designed the lantern assembly in the hands on activity in lab , we forgot to let 3 mm space between the wall and the bracket , so we could not use it .🙂

But we learned !😌

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.

We made this lantern assembly 🤩

It was the session exercise in Lab ...

I enjoyed making it with my team .🥰

Assignment Design Files

pen holder files [DXF]

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