Week 3

Ideation ( pen holder )

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)

I have a lot of Colored pens and I always struggle to organize them on my desk so that it is easy to choose a Color later, so I decided to create a design that takes into account displaying the pens in a clear way that is easy to choose from later.

Pen holder

Laser Cutting - Pen holder

3D in fusion

All sketch are fully defined.

link of inspiration : Pen Holder

Tool Chain

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

Machines

El Malky ML149 CO2 Laser Cutter

Software

RD works V8

Materials

3mm Plywood

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?

Laser Cutting

The process:

1st I tried to draw the shape on Fusion without any previous experience and it worked.

Steps are as follow:

I started with the base surface and used the rectangular pattern to make the circles for the pens.

Then I copied the basic surface without the semicircle in the middle to make the middle surface with some minor adjustments to the dimensions.

Then I drew the side and made a rectangular hole to fix the middle surface in and made a copy for the other side.

Then I drew the front face and made sure that the middle face was shorter so that it would be easier to put things in it.

I drew the dividing surface of the front area with the dimensions shown in the picture.

Finally, I drew the floor, and used projection to make drawing easier.

2nd Using RDWorks software to prepare the shape for manufacturing on the laser machine.

3rd I saved the file as "ai".

4th I downloaded the file to the machine, and it printed it..

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?

Laser Cutting ( El Malky ML149 CO2 Laser Cutter )

How I used it?

1) Make sure that the file you're printing is yours. 2) Put your plywood sheet.

3) Put the magical tool that holds your sheet. 4) Adjust the focal length.

5) Choose the place you want to print by using arrows. 6) Make it the origin point.

7) Click on "frame" to detect the size. 8) Click on "start" to cut.

Final ‏result

Final result with pens

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)

I had trouble aligning the screw circle with the nut in the T slot but after reviewing the joints and projection lesson I learned how to do it easily.

Final Project

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

Skills I learned:

Fix the base so it doesn't move (Ground) .
Design each part as a separate component.

WOW!

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

Thinking better about the sketch on which you will build the rest of the model.

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 Pinball Game Kit

With Wonderful team

Assignment Design Files

Pen holder.dxf

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