Week #3

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)

Pen Holder

This week's task I didn't focus on creating something creative as much, since we are creating a basic pen holder, so I went with a standard look (This was my reference).

Tool Chain

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

Laser Cutting Machine for

panels

3 mm plywood sheets for laser cutting

RDWorks to prepare the laser cut (.DXF) file

Designed full assembly

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?

Dimensions for T-slots

1) First side sketch

2) Extruding and copying the first side into a new object

3) second side sketch

4) extruding the secod side and copying it to a new object

5) Assembling the four sides by joints

6) Created a design on one side by using ellipses as flower petals

7) Cutting the design through the two parallel sides

8) Smaller side sketch

9) Extruding and creating a new object from the smaller side

10) Creating the frontal part sketch

11) Extruding the front face

12) creating four openings for the slots in the first side

13) Assembling all current parts together

14) Creating base sketch by projecting the bottom of my assembly

15) Fixing the base to the assembly by mates for the final shape

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?

1) I measured the remaining part of my sheet to know if it is enough for my parts and choose a proper orientation

2) Imported all dxf files into RDWorks to edit the poisition and parameters

3) Created a rectangle representing my sheet and apparently, I have more than enough space so no worries

4) Edited the proper cutting parameters and the colour representing the operation

5) Exporting the file into a proper format to upload it to the machine later once I'm in the lab

6) Uploading the design to the machine

7) Fixing the sheet on the machine

8) choosing the file, and editing the position and frame parameters to start cutting

9) cutting process took 2 minutes 43 seconds

10) Resulted parts before assembly

11) After assembly

Overcoming Challenges

When you got stuck, what/who did you turn to? At what point did you have to pause to research or learn more before moving on? What are some mistakes, pitfalls, or challenges that others can avoid if they were doing this assignment?

A problem i faced is that when the machine finished cutting, one of the parts was still not fully separated from the sheet, but with the technicians help I separated it by using a cutter instead of starting the machine again

Title of Media

Final Project

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