Author: lakelly0607

Dice making Fusion 360

Making the dice is about learning Fusion 360 and using as many different techniques as possible

My original method is as follows:

Sketch 10×10 square > Extrude up 10mm > draw on dots by either using the pattern tool and deleting the extras or using the construction line at a diagonal and making equal circles on that line > extruding all circles on each sketch individually by -0.5mm > filleting edges to 1mm radius

Steps which I found difficult – creating 10x10mm square at start > I would type in 10mm and then click enter as i’m used to rhino and need to do that to define the next dimension rather than tab

made a few mistakes by not clicking on commands or getting mixed up by still being in a command and trying to get into a new command

long winded process of creating a different set of circles for each face could be improved > possibly by using a pattern then copying it to each face

Storage location for all recordings : Autodesk Screencast

Strengths:

Professional looking free software which has similar capabilities as Solidworks

Can change some settings to be the same as solidworks

Weaknesses:

Another software to learn with different shortcuts

Opportunities:

Being able to use another CAD software  > Increases Employability

Threats:

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Mind Mapping

I decided to use a mind map for the DP403 projects research analysis and wanted to record the process for future reference.

Looking online there are several good mind mapping software but due to the ability to have a free trial I went with iMindMap.

The first step is to choose a theme similar to creating a website, which determines the types of branches and what they look like. Choosing an image or icon for the central idea was next, before creating the first branches which are the main focuses of your mind map. This was a relatively simple process which was a good foothold to start mapping the research.

Adding the detail into the mind map was done by further branches coming off from the original images. This is again easily done with the software. Further branches with boxes were added where more clarification was needed.

Feeling were incorporated into the mind map with the use of emojis. This clearly showed the thought and feeling which were recorded in the surveys and interviews.

The links between posts were created by using lines and the light bulb indicates possible ideas or innovations.

Overall I felt that the mind mapping software was good but not for initial mind maps. The best method would be to draw it by hand and then beautify it on the software. Drawing a mind map by hand is so much quicker and easier to add to and create links, between things. I will be trying the affinity method for all of my other research as I’ve never tried that and think it would be good to try a new method.

Strengths:

Professional looking and easy to change and move around objects

Weaknesses:

Slower than hand drawn

Opportunities:

Improving with software allows them to be produced quicker and with better graphics and with a more effective message

Threats:

 

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Fusion 360 Notes

Everything must have a dimension to lock it in place- blue lines indicate something that hasn’t been dimensioned

Coincident – Where two points join together

Concentric – Have the centre in the same location, share the same centre point.

Co-linear – Same angle of a line for example

Co-radial – same radius for the same point

Equal – Identical sizes, when linked they will change so very useful for changing lots of holes on board for example

Parameter – For circles: Diameter or Radius, position of centre on a face

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Week 1: Introduction, websites and project management

This week task was to create our own web page by either using edublogs or another website software. I chose to go with edublogs as they are supported by the university and therefore would have support available.

Choosing a theme was difficult and I went through several to find the correct one, eventually choosing ‘Weather’. I think this one has good menu controls as well and prominent images making it look aesthetically pleasing.

Deciding whether to go with posts or pages for the weekly summaries was as simple as testing with tags and categories. Categories can be added to menus which is ideal when using widgets to create a side menu. Therefore the best method was to go with posts, using categories to organise in the menus – possibly using some tags to help with searches – I’ll update on this later.

I felt that the side menu needed to include all of the week posts, although this may change, and so I used a widget called ‘Custom Menu’ which allows me to create an new menu and individually control what appears. For ease of access for the website I also added a site-wide search bar.

While Photoshop is a more powerful software, I don’t have access to it at home and therefore used a few online resizing software; which I found https://resizeimage.net/ to be the best. It has options for cropping, rotating, resizing with aspect ratios and by pixel count as well as scaling afterwards. However the most important is the ‘Optimize you Image’ option, which changes the compression of the image, allowing you to save space and decrease loading times on the website.

In order to not loose track of images they were correctly named with their location on website as well as their pixel size. They are saved in Google drive so accessible everywhere if they need altering.

Main Images on menu – 2500×500 – Since these are main menu images they can be slightly larger than the smaller thumbnail images set up for the individual posts – These images are well under 200KB while still being of reasonable quality – JPG images were used instead of JPEG or PNG in order to keep the sizes down, due to the limitation of edublogs allowing 1GB of media. These images are set under Appearance>Market Settings>Slider Settings>Enable Slider

Thumbnail Images – 650×600 – An easy size to remember and is what I will use for each of my posts Featured Image – the featured image is what is displayed with the post

> Correction – Correct Pixel count is 650 x 570

In order to test the categories and posts etc. work I created a new post under each category and applied the link to the menus – any problems should be discovered when further using the website in the future.

A video test post was also added, showing one of my video tutorials on YouTube. This process was very easy and went as follows: Copy and paste the YouTube URL into the media tab on create new post>Add tags and categories and a title and it should pop up in a post

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