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Ideation
Ideation
This week we were requested to fabricate our Pen Holder .. And as I love animation and characters, I fabricated falafelo .. It's an elephant divided into 3 rooms for pens & colors & Sticky notes and its nose is a phone holder .. I searched and found the inspiration from those photos.
This week we were requested to fabricate our Pen Holder .. And as I love animation and characters, I fabricated falafelo .. It's an elephant divided into 3 rooms for pens & colors & Sticky notes and its nose is a phone holder .. I searched and found the inspiration from those photos.
Tool Chain
Tool Chain
To fabricate my pen holder I used Laser cutting technique
To fabricate my pen holder I used Laser cutting technique
Firstly using Fusion 360 to design my holder
Secondly using Laser Work to prepare othe holder pieces to be cutted on 3ml wood using Laser cutting machine
Finally using M3 screws & nuts to fix the parts together
Fusin 360
Laser Work
Laser Cutting Machine
Laser Cutting Machine
3mm Polywood
M3 Screw & Nut
Design/Preparation Process
Design/Preparation Process
Started my design on fusion 360 by drawing the elephant body and nose using circles and curves and made sure that all parts are fully defined and extruded it 3mm and it was the first side
Created a offset plan and project the elephant sketch and extrude it too
Then designed the bottom of the pen holder and calculated the half length of it to be the place of the middle barriers
Designed the fully defined T-slots in the bottom part
Returned again to the main sketch "elephant" to make the holes of the screws to connect with the other parts by T-slot technique
Designed the front part and then made a copy of it and developed it to be suitable for the middle part then copied it to be the back part
Started to connect all parts together using joint feature
Exported each face of the holder with "DXF for laser" extension in form of DXF files
Implementation Process
Implementation Process
After designing prosses I started to import the DXF files into the Laser Work software & arranged all parts to fit my wooden sheet
Selected the cutting area and scaning areas then adjusted the power of cuttng to (55) and speed (30) of cutting to suits the 3mm wood and scan to be with power (20) and speed (300)
Then I downloaded the file to the machine then rested the laser position or the nozzal position and selected this point to be the origin
Used frame feature to make sure that the design fits the wood area
Started the machine and got my design
Collected the parts together then used m3 screws & nuts to fix it
Overcoming Challenges
Overcoming Challenges
My challenge was the drawing of all the curves of the elephant those was too many and making them all connected and fully defined .. I stucked at it for a long time & searched about geometry of circles and the suitable dimensions of the phone holders and the angles needed
My challenge was the drawing of all the curves of the elephant those was too many and making them all connected and fully defined .. I stucked at it for a long time & searched about geometry of circles and the suitable dimensions of the phone holders and the angles needed
then I tried to define each curve alone to the origin point and it became a perfect solution. in addition to using the sketch constraints like Tangent & Coincident
then I tried to define each curve alone to the origin point and it became a perfect solution. in addition to using the sketch constraints like Tangent & Coincident
Final Project
Final Project
Assignment Design Files
Assignment Design Files
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