9. Mechanical and Machine Design¶

Learning outcomes¶

Work and communicate effectively in a team and independently
Design, plan and build a system
Analyse and solve technical problems
Recognise opportunities for improvements in the design

Objectives¶

Document the machine building process to the group page
Document your individual contribution to this project on your own website
Linked to the group page from your individual page as well as from group page to your individual pages
Show how your team planned and executed the project (Group page)
Describe problems and how the team solved them (Group page)
List future development opportunities for this project (Group page)
Include your design files (Group page)
You need to present your machine globally and/or include an aprox. 1 min video (1920x1080 HTML5 MP4) + slide (1920x1080 PNG) (Group page)

Link to the group assignment page¶

https://fabacademy.org/2021/labs/vancouver/students/terrence-carew/assignments/week10_group.html

For this assignment the group decided to design and build an automated cookie cutter.More on the description can be found on the group page.

I designed a mold plate to be used to cut the cookies.

The first thing i did was to set up the fusion360 workspace which included setting the units and creating a new sketch.

I then used the extrude command to extrude the sketch to a distance of 77mm.

I then started a new sketch on top of the previois one to create a palte 80mm x 80mm. The sketch was extruded to a distance of 2mm.

I downloaded an SVG file from the following website which i used to create the 3D file for the mold.

https://uxwing.com/fish-icon/

I went to the insert menu and click on canvas to import the picture into fusion360. I used insert SVG and in the menu set the size and position as shown in the picture below using the arrows so that it fits reasonably into the frame.