Day 2: The Real Deal (Everest)

 Everest Leo

3D Modeling and Printing M-Term

21 March 2023

Day 2: The Real Deal (Everest)

    Today was a lot more interactive and fun than yesterday, but we had a lot of struggles with a lot of things. Unfortunately, Mr. Grisbee was not here today, so Mr. Beradino took over the class for today which was really nice actually. First, we brought the 3D printers over from the tinkeria and then we were talking about all different kinds of 3D printing and we saw some videos on them which I thought was cool because there are many different types of printing for different applications and to overcome specific obstacles. 

After taking a short break, we started setting up the printers and the accompanying software on our computers. We imported the first model we made on Fusion (the lego brick) into the software (Ultimaker cura) so we could then put it onto an sd card, put that sd card into the printer and print the object. Because we have two printers, we also printed a scaled-down version of a beer bottle (a normal-sized one would've taken hours upon hours to print). it was really cool finally seeing our models being printed and the layers going one by one.

After finishing lunch and playing around with the final printed products, we started modeling another object: a paper clip. This one, for me at least, was quite easy and only required some minor troubleshooting to get working but then again, a paper clip is pretty simple. The point was just to teach us more functions of Fusion, so too much complexity is unnecessary. Either way, I quickly moved on to the printing stage but ran into problems there with parts of the clip fusing together, which I quickly fixed by lowering the thickness of the paper clip and re-printing it.

The last thing we were tasked with was modeling a whiskey bottle in Fusion 360, which no one completed once the day finished (including me), so we have it as a quick assignment for homework. It is getting a little bit more complicated now, as there are more chances for things to go wrong, and sometimes it's hard to tell where the lines do and don't connect, but overall it is nice and relatively intuitive to me. I'm looking forward to how much I can improve and how efficient I can get with this software.

Whiskey Bottle (Unfinished)