3D Printing

 Additive design

For this assignment, I made a snowglobe!

To start off, I drew a circle and a few squares to be the dome and buildings respectively.

I then extruded the dome in to a sphere and used the shell function to make it hollow.

I used the split function to "open" the dome so that I would be able to see the buildings and dome at the same time.

I used parameters to extrude the "buildings" as well as the base.

Here are the parameters I used:

I also added a little person inside the snowglobe by sketching the shape and then extruding it.

Here is the final product!

3D Printing

My hero shot!

From this practical I realised, more than ever, how important it is to practice what we have been doing. Fusion 360 this time around was much easier than previous tasks. 

Learning new features like parameters helped me out. Meanwhile, the rest of the designing was also made easier when I explored the tools more than I ever have. Functions like shell and split body were utilised in this design. Scrolling at the bottom of fusion 360 were also less wieldy which helped me to make sure I was on the right track.

In terms of the actually 3D printing in the lab, I think that it went well and having some of my classmates there was well as lecturers helped to do it well. I had to scale the design down a lot which I think I could have prevented by making the design smaller initially but by scaling it down and not printing the fill, the printing time was very much reduced.