Week1 #3 - Journal

This week the task idea was to know about how to design 3d models on fusion 360 program through different tools

I got inspired from the tutorials , and tried to go through the tutorials .

Tutorials

Extrude

-The main task this week was to know how to design a 3D model on fusion 360 so I started to follow the tutorials , the first one was the extrude tool :

-First step was to draw the base of the drawing with it's specific dimensions , then from the modify panel i chose extrude and selected the face that I need to extrude with it's extrusion distance

-After this I used the shell tool to give the vase the thickness I want to be hollow from the inside .

Loft

The second tool was loft , this tool needed to have to shapes on different levels to start to connect between them , so firstly I draw a polygon on the ground plane and from the construct panel I chose offset plane to start a new plane with a specific height from the first one .

-then after this I drew a polygon on the second plane

-To make the points be twisted with fixed points , I needed to have a constraint so from the preferences panel I checked on allow 3d sketching of lines , and started to draw lines between the points of the two polygons

- The last thing was to make loft and then move one of the points to make the shape twisted .

Sweep

Third tool was the sweep tool , it requires a profile and a path to follow it :

-I drew the polygon in the xy plane , then i started to draw the path i want the vase to take it's shape in the zx plane , after this from the create panel i chose sweep :

-profile : The polygon

-path : The path I drew on the zx plane

then at the end I chose shell to make the thickness of the vase

To draw this part of the fidget :

I started to draw a circle with the specified diameter from the origin and then I drew a vertical line to be a semi circle and then I trimmed the extra part .

-After this from the create panel I chose revolve ,this created the ball part

-Then to start to draw the hand of it , I started to make an offset plane with a distance 89.72 from the center of the ball plane

-Then I drew the square to make an extrude (Join) from it with a distance 39.72 in a direction towards the ball

- The last step was to cut inside this hand by drawing a circle 15mm and an extrude (Cut ) downwards and the same step with a circle of diameter 20mm.

To draw this part of the fidget :

I started to draw a circle with the specified diameter from the origin and then I drew a vertical line to be a semi circle and then I trimmed the extra part .

-After this from the create panel I chose revolve ,this created the ball part

-Then To make the ball without the upper part of it , from the construct panel I created an offset plane with a distance 32.64 ,then from the modify panel split body

-After this I removed the upper part , and started to make a shell with a distance 4mm

-The last step was to make the hanger , i drew a circle with a radius 9 mm and an offset 2mm

-The I extruded it 2mm (Join )

To o draw this part :

-First I drew a rectangle with the specified dimensions , then extruded it

-Then I drew a circle with diameter 14 mm and then extruded it downwards (Join ) with a distance 10mm

-After this I selected the face of the circle and drew another one on it with a diameter 19mm , then extruded it downwards (Join ) 5mm

-Then I constructed an offset plane with a distance 39.64 from the base ,and drew a rectangle on it with dimension (30*15)

-After this I extruded the rectangle downwards (Cut ) , this created a hollow shape inside it .

-The last thing , I drew a circle on the top face and extruded it downwards (Cut ) with a distance 5.36 mm .

To o draw this part :

-First I drew a rectangle with the specified dimensions , then extruded it

-Then I constructed an offset plane with a distance 2mm to start tto draw the hook

-Then I drew an arc from the center of the origin on the new plane ,

-After this Offset the drawn arc with a distance 14.2 and then I dew a vertical const. line to mirror this arc

-Then I extruded it

-The last thing was to draw a circle on the face of the base rectangle and extruded it towards the hook (Join)

-Firstly I started to create components from the drawn bodies to start assembly

-I made the base part (Ground ) to start assembly on it

-Then to joint the ball connect to it , I started to choose join from the assembly panel and selected the 2 components , after this I added motion to it (Ball motion ) then I added limits to it from the edit joint limits panel to make it between angle 30 and -30

-Then I started to join the second part , with a revolving motion

-The last part I joined it with a axial motion, but I needed to add limits to it , so i started editing it from the edit joint limits panel , from 0 to 15mm .

To draw the extra space part :

-I drew with the line tool the shape and then drew a circle , after this I trimmed the circle then made an offset from the whole drawing with a distance 5mm

-After this I copied this drawing from the top view with a distance 40mm to start to make a surface between them (Loft )

-From the create panel I chose loft and started to select the two profiles that I want to make a surface between them

For the main pencil case holder :

-I chose the face and drew a rectangle on it which will be the surface I will use to sweep

-Then I took an offset plane from the ground plane to start to draw on it a random path to sweep on it with a distance 50mm from the ground

-After this from the create panel I chose sweep(Join) and selected the rectangle and the path to move on it

-The same process was done for the bottom part with a random path .

-The last step was to export the STL file , by right clicking on the body and choose save as STL

-Then I imported the STL on prusa slicer and started to choose the settings for printing (0.2mm normal , Generic PLA , infill 15%)

-After I chose slice , I found that the estimated time exceeded 90 minutes and the file size was 45 grams , so I started to scale the model down and changed the settings to 0.35mm Fast , infill 20% .

-Time 75min.

-Size : 25grams

-Yes I took feedback from the instructors on my work , I had some questions about the tools to make a spring like pencil case and the instructor discussed it with me

-During the midweek session I had some questions about the plane we choose during drawing the model and I learnt that we could choose a face on the body to draw on it .

- I learnt from my peers from their questions on our WhatsApp group .Someone asked about the file size I had the same problem , and one of the instructors answered her for changing the settings .

• During the designing of the pencil case I had a problem with the file size in sort of grams and time of it , so I asked the instructor for a solution , and he helped me by changing the settings from 0.2mm normal to 0.35mm fast , and I also made the infill with a less percentage , this helped me to not exceed the required size