Week 10
Fri, Feb 21 CW – image of work completed in class
Fri, Feb 21 HW – image of completed homework
All of my projects required printing, glueing and assembling, therefore I did not have anything to complete for homework.
Wed, Feb 19 CW – image of work completed in class
I printed and glued together my desktop organizer. I also worked on the electrical parts of my LED lamp to try and finish it off.
Wed, Feb 19 HW – image of completed homework
I did not get the chance to print my desktop organizer so I began working on the sketch and dimensions of my phone for the phone-holder project that was announced in class.
Mon, Feb 17 CW – image of work completed in class
In class I worked on my LED lamp while I waited to print my desktop organizer. I got pretty far and actually completed the whole thing minus the electrical parts. I glued all of the pieces together, put the resin and magnets it, screwed the metal bars to the arms, and the connected the arms together and attached them to the base.
Mon, Feb 17 HW – image of completed homework
For homework I saved everything I have and all of my sketches as DXF files and organizing them to set my up for class tomorrow where I will print everything out.
Week 9
Thur, Feb 13 CW – Image of work completed in class
In class today I finished the desktop organizer. Today I had to complete the small triangles. With help from Mr. Brody I learned that all I had to do was do the same thing I did for the larger triangle, which is just extruding it to make a new body, and then moving it. I did this three times, and then finished it off by combining the small triangles to the back vert and the bottom and cutting out the pegs.
Thur, Feb 13 HW – Image of completed homework
Because I was still struggling with making the small triangles as I did not have time in class to get them done, I just went over all of the components and bodies of my desk organizer. I did this because I knew some parts like the large triangle were still a part of another component. So I went in and fixed all of that and gave everything a name.
Tues, Feb 11 CW – Image of work completed in class
Today in class I started trying to get caught up on my LED lamp. I had already sent all of the files to the printer so all I needed to do was delete their outline, and set the size of the wood and the thickness of the wood. From there it was super quick and really cool to watch the lamp get printed. In the end I did run into a problem, the upper horizontal seems to be to small, so I went back to my fusion and re saved it. Next class I will print a new one with the correct dimensions.
Tues, Feb 11 HW – Image of completed homework
I struggled a good bit with making the small triangles as all I had to work with was the reference photo. I tried extruding and jointing a bunch but nothing was really working so I decided to go and make a new sketch of the triangle and extrude it in hopes of being able to copy it into the organizer tab.
Week 8
Sat, Feb 8 HW – image of completed homework
For homework I mainly focused on fixing my mistakes. For example, some of the holes where the pieces connect were done wrong and I had to fix that. The front sketch was part of another component which I then had to make it it’s own thing. And the pieces I was trying to extrude were turning 90 degrees and I had to figure out how to make it not do that when jointing. Next I plan on finishing the organizer by adding the last few small triangles which I have already made a new component for.
Thur, Feb 6 CW – image of work completed in class
In class today I made the sketch and completed the center piece in the organizer that I will then separate into even smaller compartments.
Thur, Feb 6 HW – image of completed homework
For homework I completed the back side. I added all the parts nececarry for it to be able to connect with the other parts.
Week 7
Thur, Jan 30 CW – Image of work completed in class
In this class I completed the middle piece. I did this by going back to the original sketch of the side and only extruding parts of it. I then made it shorter but still included the little peg to connect it to the back.
Thur, Jan 30 HW – Image of completed homework
For homework tonight I completed the back of the organizer. I first made the sketch, then extruded it. I’d say a challenging part of making the back was making the holes where they connect to the sides because it has to be perfect.
Tues, Jan 28 CW – Image of work completed in class
After completing the sketch I extruded the front piece. I made sure to make the legs hollow out just like the side pieces. After I set the proper width I went and checked on my “change parameters” thing which was set to 0.118, I changed it to .21 the width of the material, and it worked so I set it back to the original distance.
Tues, Jan 28 HW – Image of completed homework
For homework I began working on the sketch for the front piece. Compared to past work this part was actually pretty challenging because we wanted the little dip in it in which I had to round the corners. At the end, I projected it to help me when I extruded it.
Week 6
Fri, Jan 24 CW – Completed in class
Fri, Jan 24 HW – completed for homework
This is where I am at currently. After finishing the side piece I made a copy of it by extruding the parts I wanted. However the right side has one less connecter hole thing than the left one so when extruding I left that one out. I then used the joint command to set the distance between the two.
Wed, Jan 22 HW – image of completed in class
Today in class we began making the desktop organizer. A new skill I learned today is how to use the spline tool to make a curved line. I also learned how to maneuver it to align it with the horizontal line above it to make it a more smooth transition. We then worked for the rest of class on getting to know the blueprint and beginning to work on some of the parts. I started making the rectangles off to the left by making lines, using D for dimension, trimming unwanted lines, and making some lines construction and some regular.
Week 5
Sat, Jan 18 CW – image of work completed in class
In this class I really got to work trying to finish the whole lamp. I made the lower metal plated that I jointed to the lower arms. They looked a bit different from the ones on the upper arms because their base was flat, but the top remained like a circle. I then made the base plate and attached it to the bottom. The base plate looked challenging in the beginning, but it ended up being simple because of all of the commands I have learned throughout this process. Finally, I completed the base which I made in a whole separate tab. I found this base challenging but rewarding as when it was completed it really brought everything together and I saw the final vision of what the lamp should look like. At this stage I was sad to be completed with the fusion part, but also relieved because it was pretty hard. I am really excited to begin actually cutting out the pieces.
Homework and in-class work assignments not submitted on time will receive a grade of 0.
Thur, Jan 16 CW – image of work completed in class
In this class I finished the lower arm horizontal. Now that the rectangle was on the lower arms face, all I had to do was extrude it out. I extruded it to when it went to the other lower arm (in the picture its to far but I fixed it). I then used the inspect tool to make sure the distance between each side was correct when I extruded it. Finally, I used the same modify tool to cut out the unwanted pieces of the horizontal to fit the lower arms cutout holes.
Homework and in-class work assignments not submitted on time will receive a grade of 0.
Tues, Jan 14 CW – image of work completed in class
In this class I completed my lower arm horizontal. I first created a new component, named it, and projected the larger rectangle in the lower arm. I then dragged one side of the rectangle outwards, then created lines going from the corners of the rectangle to the dragged out line. I pressed D for dimension and made all of the distanced correct. Once the copy was complete, I used the shift trick to center the new rectangle into the center of the lower arm. I finished the sketch and was left with a horizontal that I now see on the lower arm as I can with the upper arm.
Homework and in-class work assignments not submitted on time will receive a grade of 0.
Week 4
Fri, Jan 10 CW – image of work completed in class
In this class I attached the lower arms that I made previously, to the already finished upper parts. I then used a new tool called “joint” in the assemble category and used this throughout this day. For example, after connecting the lower arms to the upper, I used the joint tool, selected the center of my plates, selected the center of the face I wanted to join it to, and pressed return. This then moved the plates exactly where I wanted them to go in place.
Fri, Jan 10 HW – image of completed homework
After making the small and large plates I needed to make the lower arms. I already had both my upper arms and knew the process I would need to complete (making one then making a copy). That is then what I did and I used the arrows that popped up to drag the arms in the direction I wanted them to go.
Wed, Jan 8 -CW – image of work completed in class
Today I began making the small and large metal plates. I did this by making a new component, naming it “small plate” or “large plate”, then creating a new sketch. In this sketch I made a circle with the correct dimensions, and then created another circle inside with the correct dimensions. Then I was left with a plate with a hole in the center that would allow me to later on attach it to something. This process was the same for both the small and large plates, obviously just different dimensions.
Wed, Jan 8 HW – image of completed homework
In this class I learned how to view my current completed model by simply selecting the gray button beside whichever part I wanted to see, in this case I wanted to see everything put together, so I selected “LED LAMP”. I then learned how to project the arm by clicking p, then selecting the part I want projected. In the end I was left with a bunch of the purple dots and lines shown above that would allow me to further create the rest of the arm accurately with guidance of the projection.
Week3
Wed, Dec 18 CW – image of work completed in class
Again, I unfortunately do not have an image of it, but after making the two arms I made a simple 3D rectangle which I named “Horizontal upper arm” then placed it in the middle of my two arms. The new skill i learned when making this horizontal was how to use the “modify” option and cut out pieces to fit another part. I used this tool in the image shown above. I selected this new horizontal and clicked “modify” and pressed the option to “cut” and to cut it specifically to this other body, in this case being the two upper arms. I was then left with parts of the horizontal now being able to fit into the cut out rectangles on the upper arms.
Wed, Dec 18 HW – image of completed homework
In this homework I completed the two upper arms. I did this by extruding, a new feature I learned how to do on fusion, and making a copy of the extruded arm and dragging it to the side. I then checked the dimensions by using the “inspect” tool which is really cool as it shows you the distance between two selected objects of your choice. Unfortunately I do not have a picture of it but before extruding the upper arm I added the cutout rectangles. I did this by making a rectangle outside of the sketch on a blank surface, then using a new technique I learned which is holding the shift key down and finding the middle of a line which then helped me move the rectangle to the center of the arm. I then made copies of them and dragged them down making sure the distance between each was correct.
Mon, Dec 16 CW – image of work completed in class
In class today I began sketching the upper arm. At this point in the beginning of the process I was struggling to use Fusion as I thought it was to complicated, however with the guidance of Mr. Brodies YT videos I realized that I have to learn small steps at a time. Today the step I made was learning how to make a circle + add its dimensions, cut out unwanted pieces, and click D for dimension.
Mon, Dec 16 HW – image of completed homework
In this class we worked on getting to know fusion by practicing making a box. I learned how to name, save and organize my work all on fusion.
Week 10