Month: September 2019

So this week we’re moving from making an item my subtraction on the laser printer and moving to additive creation with the 3D printer. I’ll also be starting off with a simple design process of making a flat object and then using the revolve tool to make it a fully 3D object in one swoop…. Read more »

Thankfully professor McKay spent some extra time in class going over this project and I decided to start the design over from scratch. Since I was able to follow along and take some good notes hopefully you’ll notice that everything worked out much better this go around. I still have some questions about projections (and… Read more »

The interface to Fusion 360, at first seemed bpretty intuitive. I was able to sketch the shape of my leg out according to the dimensions set out but modifying it wasn’t very intuitive. Just making changes were pretty difficult and I spent about 30 minutes just trying to modify angles. The oddest thing was realizing… Read more »

Alright, so this isn’t going to be that hard. We’re basically just sketching out a rectangle and extruding it up a bit. Here’s a pic of the flat rectangle I started out popping onto my artboard. Then I used the right click and “Push Pull” tool to pull this thing up to .15 inches. Somehow… Read more »

So the software we are using for the 3D modeling portion of the class is called Fusion 360. This is a pretty intuitive program and I just start the tutorial out by creating a clean slate… As you can see it’s a nice little grid and some clean interfaces. I actually found that all the… Read more »

Well, our professor is somehow having a hard time remembering the billion of us students in his class so he’s having us make some nameplates. Ha! I think we’re going to create them with some string and hand them from our necks so that he can easily call on up when we’re clearly doing something… Read more »