WEEK 7

💯 What happened during the lesson?

For this week of the online tutorial session, we were introduced to this CADD software called Fusion 360. Many of us are complete beginners to this software and at first glance, we were intrigued by its features, functions, and layout. We were excited to find out what we would be doing using this software for the tutorial session and what can we do for future projects.

We started by following a step-by-step procedure to create a 3D model of our very own keyring. At first, some of us were very confused about the entire sketching and extruding process to form the product like how we can extrude the different components to different heights, sketching, and offsetting different lines in the model. But, after a while, we started to slowly find out how the different functions work and we managed to piece the model together after many difficulties and struggles.

From all the practices for the first 3D model, the designing process for the second model that made use of sketch constraints came to be much easier and smooth sailing. Thus, we were able to finish both sketches within the tutorial session period and we, of course, enjoyed ourselves.

💭 What have we learnt?

From this week’s tutorial session, we have learnt many different functions we can use in Fusion 360 to construct a 3D model of a product. Functions include sketching using different shapes, extruding 2D into 3D models, filleting, offsetting, using sketch constraints and many many more. All of these show how we can change a simple 2D sketch into a detailed 3D model that shows an actual representation of how a product should look like once it is being constructed or 3D printed.

Takeaways from the practices we did are, first, having such a software will enable us to create blueprints for a specific product, plan ahead then construct an actual one in real life according to the blueprint. This will be very useful for us once we start to create the 3D model for our group’s chosen chemical product. We also felt that creating a model actually takes a lot of time and effort to precisely construct every components of the product and making sure all dimensions are correct and accurate.

🔧 Keyring Modelling Process

Our group made our very own customised keyrings using the step-by-step procedures given to us on Blackboard. The entire process was something like this…

These were the finished keyring products from our group.

📷 Photo frame Modelling Process

And lastly, for our post tutorial work, we had to design a 3D photo frame model using Fusion 360 then it will be sent to cut and constructed once we are back in school.

A typical photo frame has 4 parts, and each part should be allocated to a different group member. However, our group has only 3 members. Thus, we had to innovate and come up with a new design for the photo frame that only consists of 3 parts.

After much brainstorming and discussion, this is what we have come up with…

This photo frame uses a clear main body instead and this shows elegance while reducing our components of the photo frame to only 3 parts, which is ideal for us.

The process of making the photo frame is available in the link shown below.

Documentation of Fusion 360 Photo Frame

This concludes week 7’s tutorial session and we are a step closer to being a 3D designer 😄😎.