Week 2: Handphone stand

Welcome to my week 2's blog🐽

This week we learned about how to make parametric designs using Fusion 360.

Objective: Create a handphone stand

This activity will help us to understand the importance of Parametric Design, at the end of this activity, I should be able to:
1. Create my own handphone stand.
2. Adjust the dimension of the design easily.

Procedures:

1. Sketch a basic shape

It took me a while to think about the shape of the handphone stand, then I have decided to use a hollow shape, so I drew 2 circles sharing the same centre point using the "circle" option. I specified the diameter of the bigger circle as "OD" as 140mm, then I modified the diameter of the smaller circle with "OD/2" function as I did not want the width of the hollow shape to be too thick. (see fig.1). The reason I chose 140mm and OD/2 is because the width of my phone is about 8cm, so the opening will be 8.4cm.

Fig. 1

Then I drew 2 straight lines on the edge of the circle, used "trim" to remove the unwanted lines, so I get fig.2.

Fig. 2

2. Make improvements to the sketch

After I get the basic design of the handphone stand, I realized that there should be a supporting point to maintain the function of the phone stand. So I drew out the "h" letter using "fit point spline", which then forms the 2 capital letters of my name.

Fig. 3

3. Extrusion

I was pretty satisfied with the design, So I "extrude" it with 60mm(the length of the phone stand, so it is not too bulky yet can hold the phone properly) to show the 3D sample.

Fig. 4

4. Fillet

In order to make the handphone stand less sharp, I applied "fillet" to all the sharp edges.

Fig. 5

5. Adjustment

Then I was worried that the phone will slide down easily, so I considered adding a mini support inside the handphone stand. So I click on "skecth 1" and chose "edit skecth" to draw out the support. Then "extrude" the new shape added.

 

Fig. 6

📏Dimensions I have used to create the handphone stand.

Fig. 7

6. Material

In "modify", use "material" to decide on which material should be used for the handphone stand. So I used Plastic because it is light and Black in color so it looks cool.

Fig. 8

Reflection:

I felt that making the design parametric is very useful because I do not need to change the dimension of every line, in fact, I just need to change 1 line which is very helpful and less time-consuming.

My handphone stand file:

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Welcome to my blog! I'm Cui Han from DCHE/FT/2B/02💤

I'm from group Kalyani and friends:D

Something about me:

I love to play games with my friends and I spend a lot of time staring at my cute fish🐟

It's difficult for me to get started on work but I will try my best to finish everything before the deadline.

My goals:

1. I want to more focus during the class.

2. Use all the skills and techniques learned in class to make a proper prototype.

How to achieve my goals:

I will pay attention during the lesson and do some further research on the topic in order to gain a deeper understanding. I will also seek help from my group members and our teacher when I get confused, be positive in learning.

Some ground rules:

1. Always be punctual⏰
2. Attend all meetings
3. Always voice out your opinions
4. No violence
5. Lend Maddie a pen & paper✏
6. Have respect for yourselves and others
7. Always be honest and trust each other
8. No vulgarities
9. Only peace & love❤
10. Do your best in the course 

PUNISHMENT:👺

If any of the following rules have been breached, 10 squats are in the corner of the venue.

Just a random pic of my fish:

See u again

Week 1: Key Chain

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Since it is the 1st week, so one of the tasks is to use Fusion 360 to create a key chain with our own names, it also serves as a revision for semester 1.

This activity will help us to fresh some of the learning points in ICPD, at the end of this exercise, I should be able to:

1. Design a key chain using Fusion 360

2. Familiarize with the different function keys

Here are the Procedures:

1. create a key chain shape

To start with, I need to create a basic shape of a key chain, so I drew a rectangle with a length of 65mm and a width of 25mm. Then I used "offset" of 2mm to create the space where I can type my name inside(shown in Fig.1).

Figure 1

2. Design the key chain

Then, I selected "create a line" from the top to bottom. Next up, I used "dimension" to maintain the distance of 7mm between the line and the left border, so the hole of the key chain will be located nicely in this dimension. After I have created a 5mm radius circle, I can then use "text" to type my name inside the space. However, in the tutorial, it specified a height of 16mm, but my name cannot fix nicely so I used a height of 13mm (see Fig.2). 

Figure 2

3. Extrude

It is almost done! The next step is to "extrude" (Extrude can turn our 2D sketch into 3D) the frame and the inner surface of the key chain with a value of 3mm, but be in mind that DON'T select the circle and the name. You will then get a key chain like what is shown in Fig.3.

Figure 3

4. Final adjustment

The final step is to select our name and the frame to "extrude" and type 1.5mm, in the extrude box, select "offset plane" and type 3mm. The final product is shown in Fig.4.

Figure 4

5. Customize

For me, I wanted to make it looks nicer with a little bit of change, so I select "properties" to change the colour of my name💦

Figure 5

My key chain file: