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Ideation
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)
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)
This week's assignment aims to design a mobile holder in fusion 360, which could be fabricated using laser cutting machine.
For inspiration I searched online until I found smething interesting.
Tool Chain
Tool Chain
Which software/machines/materials did you use in the assignment? Why?
Which software/machines/materials did you use in the assignment? Why?
I used Fusion 360, which is CAD software to create the 3D model and the 2D sketches.
LaserWorks is used to prepare the files to laser machine.
Design/Preparation Process
Design/Preparation Process
For sketching the elephant I used reference photo as canvas, and matched the curves using the 3-point curve tool, then I made all curves tangent to each other. For the legs I used lines and fillets, then mirrored the left leg to the right.
I gave dimensions to all curves and lines, and also other sketch constrains to make the sketch fully defined.
For the connector part it was easier as it is all straight lines. T-slot also consists of straight lines, one thing in common that I modelled only half of the shape and mirrored it.
after finishing the sketches, I extruded them to the thickness of 3mm and made them components for assembly.
for the assembly I assembled them by means of the tabs which was straight forward.
Development/Implementation Process
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?
Explain the development/implementation process of your assignment. How did you use the machine/tool to manufacture or implement the design of your assignment?
To prepare the files for Laser cutting. I combined the two sketches into one sketch and deleted all the construction lines leaving only the lines to be cut, this made it easier for Laserworks to deal with.
All the lines are to be cut throughly with speed of 30 m/s and power of 65%.
Learning from Mistakes
Learning from Mistakes
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?
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 mistake I did that I didn't calculate the horizontal distance, which is the width of the mobile (in case it is lying vertically). So I downloaded my mobilephone 3D model from grabcad and put it into the assembly to give the right dimensions.
Community of Learning
Community of Learning
Did you ask for feedback? What are the ideas that others have contributed or suggested? What was someone else’s idea that you built upon? How did you help your peers? How did your peers help you?
Did you ask for feedback? What are the ideas that others have contributed or suggested? What was someone else’s idea that you built upon? How did you help your peers? How did your peers help you?
Some thing that helps me a lot is using reference images as canvas this helps me to find a reference to work with.
First hit insert>canvas
After that we select the image under the canvases section and right click selecting calibrate to select two points and giving a distance between them to calibrate the image to tha actual dimensions
Final Project
Final Project
Weekly Digest [OPTIONAL]
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.
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.
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