Blog Entry 3

Hello!!! Welcome back to my blog once again😍😎. Today I will be sharing about my experience with manual drawing and and CAD drawing with AutoDesk Fusion 360.

This is the manual drawing of the coffee maker:

This is the drawing of my group's eventual product after COWS:

My Fusion 360 photoframe:

My personal takeaways and Learning Reflection😱

• At first, I was very clueless and unsure on how to use Fusion 360 and how to do manual drawings as I was absent on the day they were taught.

• However, with the help and guidance of my friends, I was able to catch up with the class with the things i missed and managed to create a keychain using Fusion 360 on my own!

• When doing the manual drawing of the coffee maker, it brought back memories from my primary and secondary school where we had Art lessons. Throughout my life, I have never done well in Art and I am not an artistic person.

• I learned many new and interesting things such as one-point perspective and two-point perspective drawings.

• One-point perspective drawing means that the drawing has a single vanishing point that is usually directly opposite the viewer's eye and usually on the horizon line. On the other hand, two-point perspective drawing is defined by 2 vanishing points that represent 2 convergence points and infinite distance away.

• Overall, I found it challenging and difficult to complete the manual drawing and the drawing using Fusion 360. But, I believe that with this knowledge on Fusion 360 and manual drawing, it will benefit us greatly in the future when we are doing 3D printing.

Practical 2!!!!

In practical 2, we were introduced to the fundamental techniques and tools that are needed to start building cardboard structures and mechanisms. The different mechanisms that we learned are flange, L-brace, tabs, slot, insert, slot+tabs, holes, zip ties, wire and skewer. While, we also learned how to use different tools such as the penknifes and the hot-glue gun.

My group decided to build a pirate ship using 6 different mechanism. They are L-brace, slot, insert, holes, zip-ties and skewers. At first, many of us were lost and did not know how to start. Luckily, one of my groupmates, Aminur, had done this practical back in secondary school and he guided us through the practical. Although we took a long time to complete the ship, it was worthed it and it was a good bonding session.

During the presentations, it was very exciting and cool to see how the different mechanisms worked in different structures. Personally, my favourite cardboard structure was the vending machine done by one of the groups in my class. It taught me the working mechanism and principles of a vending machine which was very fascinating.

These are some pictures we took during the practical😄😜: