Week 6:Wildcard

Assignment Activities

Individual Assignment.

Design and produce something with a digital fabrication process (incorporating computer-aided design and manufacturing) not covered in another assignment, documenting the requirements that your assignment meets, and including everything necessary to reproduce it. Possibilities include (but are not limited to):

Individual Assignment.

In this week 15 of Wildcard for me I have called it the week of brainstorming and reasoning week because like an open space for me to think what i have to do,It was quite challenging for me to think what I can do in this week of wildcard.

After taking a moment of brainstorming I decided to use Welding Technology to design my Base Part which I used later in the Final Project.,Then for this I used Arc Welding To implement it.

Firstly, Welding: Welding:is a fabrication process that joins materials, usually metals or thermoplastics, by using high heat to melt the parts together and allowing them to cool, causing fusion.

There are different types of Welding which are:Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW/MIG), Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW/TIG), Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW), and Flux Cored Arc Welding (FCAW), for more info you can visit Here

For Me I have used Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW):is a fusion welding process that uses a consumable, flux-coated electrode to create an arc between the electrode and the work piece.

There are main Components I used in Shieded Metal Arc Welding.

• Arc welding power source (welding machine)
• Electrode lead cable.
• Electrode holder.
• Leads
• Cables.
• Cable connectors.
• Ground clamp
• Chipping hammer.

Firstly I made Computer Aided Design by Using Solidworks and Then I welded by using Desired Dimensions.

Below Are the steps of how I did in CAD(Computer Aided Design).

Computer_Aided_Design(Solidworks)

1. Firstly As usual I did the sketch for Part1 though all all two parts are almost the same.

2. Then Next I added on the support Legs.

3. I continued by adding the Legs on the platform.

4. Then next I added load cell holes for holding the load cell with bolt and nut

5. Then my First Part ended like this.

6. And As I said above part 2 is very similar to Part1 except the legs which are in Part 1 only but others are the same ecen colours.

7. Then for the Assembling I downloaded the load cell from GrabCAD then I searched load cell until I found this.

8. Then I Assembled the Parts and it looks like this.


Below is Animation Combines All for CAD

Welding the Base Part

I have used almost all the components used in Metal Welding to design the Base part of the BMI Machine.

Let me go in the details how I reached to the final product in Welding.

1. Firstly I Went to the Metal market to find for the workpiece (Rectangular Metal tubes) to use in the welding because other equipments where available, and Then I started to measure according to the desired dimensions.


2. Then I started to measure according to the desired dimensions. and Then I started to measure according to the desired dimensions.


3. then after measuring and mark the desired length I started cutting using the grinding machine to remain with desired Part.


4. After I started to solder the coincide metal Parts


5. The bottom part after cutting and soldering.


6. Then After finishing the base part,I did surface finishing using grinding machine and then I started painting it with yellow colour after few minutes.


7. Then After Painting I waited for 1 hour to dry and then I fixed by load cell well on the base part.

8. Then everything it's done final output is this.

Video summarizes all processes