12.04.2021
Now that I was set on what I was making I thought I would start by designing it in fusion A) so that I could see what the final product might look like and B) I thought it would be easier to get the correct dimension and spacing for the wholes this way and then print them off. This worked very well as I needed to see the whole thing visually and it saved time rather than making several versions in 3D.
I thought making the shape would be a good start and getting my insperation from the bagatelle design I wanted it to be round at the top like an arc. I started by designing different arcs in fusion to see which one I thought was the most aesthetically pleasing. I decided to go for the one in the red square which is the 130 mm height one.
I then thought about the distance that the dowels needed to spaced apart for the bottle cap to move past them. To start with I just placed them closer together so that the cap wouldn't be able to just fall straight down past them. Over the next few weeks I will be trying out these parts of my design to see what would work best for the movement of the bottle cap.
In fusion I used the pattern tool to get these correct as I was making them as seen below.
This process of designing my project in fusion was to help me understand how it was going to all come together and what I wanted it to look like. I had brought this bottle opener from ebay and decided to make it in CAD so I could understand completely what it could look like.
My original idea was to have the game with no frame around the edge as I thought it would look better, but then someone pointed out this was more modern and the frame would work better. So I thought I would mock it up in fusion to see what the overal design of the two ideas looked like and they were right.
As you can see below the one with the frame I personally think is much nice and more interesting than the one without the frame. It looks more like the games I had researched like bagatelle with the curve too.
I also render the whole design adding an extra lip at the top to stop the cap from falling out (this I ended up needing in the final design). Overall I think it looks really good and that I can start thinking about how the bottle cap is going to move down the piece as it falls.
