2. Computer Aided design¶

This week I worked on designing in 2D and 3D building softwares. We used Blender, Sculpt GL, Correl Draw, Gimp, and Makerworld’s Statue Generator.

Files¶

These Files contain my Blender, Sculpt GL, and Fusion 360 designs.

Honest Opinion¶

This week was kind of boring in my opinion, sure learning all of these new softwares are fun but I was itching to actually do some hands on engineering. Dr. Taylor has given me a spooky warning about getting what I wish for, so I’m sure next week I’ll be regretting these words. But I think I’ll be just fine. Maybe.

Overview¶

• I will design something in all of these softwares and give what I think about all of them.

3D Designing¶

Blender¶

Ms. Horstman gave a detailed Crash Course in Blender on Wednesday, January 29, 2025. She explained the complete UI of Blender including views, keyboard shortcuts, physics, and animation. We worked on creating a shape in Blender, editing the faces, edges, and vertices of this shape. After this we created a flat plane which we added the cloth physic to and made the cube a self collide. To see the collision we learned how to use the animate and render feature. Finally we learned about lightning and Camera angles to actually view and save our animation.

Fusion 360¶

I went onto Fusion 360 and began to design my basic idea for my 3d model of the Rainbow Six Siege Drone. I used many strange and different tools to achieve my ideas of what I wanted to use

2D Designing¶

Correl Draw¶

I decided to use Correl Draw for my 2d vector software, I created a design on CorelDraw using the shape, import, and tracing the bitmap.

Gimp¶

I unfortunately do not know gimp very well so in order to get more used to it I will do a basic tutorial. (NEED TO DO)

Gimp weird.

Process¶

This will cover both my 2D and 3D walk through.

CorelDraw¶

This was my original raster picture of a Soccer ball.

I selected Trace Bitmap and then selected Logo to create a new Vector image from my original. You can adjust the detail, color, smoothness of the image in order to change how it is created and how it is used on laser cutters.

A Vector image is created by mathematical statements that form smooth lines even when you zoom in making, them perfect for engraving materials.

Its classic and pretty easy but not my favorite of these sites.

Blender¶

a. I first needed to bet introduced to the idea of Blender so I used the website Sculpt GL to mold a lump of clay into anything that I wanted to. This is what I wanted to create:

b. Next I started to go through the basic Blender tutorial where I learned how to change my view using the six view options and learning that shift a is the command to bring new shapes into Blender.

c. I learned how to change my view type through the view drop down, located above the 6 view options. I could switch to x-ray view and could shade specific objects in my design

d. I switched the object mode so that we could edit and change the model by modifying edges, faces, and vertices. I did this by rotating, moving, and scaling specific parts of the object.

Changing the Mode

We could modify the object by Rotating

Moving

Scaling

e. After this I learned how to create new edges, faces, and vertices on my model and how to edit those.

Adding new lines

Adding a new face

Modifying a new face

f. I learned next how to remove one face of said shape and how to put it back together

g. Finally I began to work on physics, specifically a falling physic for a piece of cloth and a collision physic for the block below, then I clicked play to run the animation with the physics

The Cloth

The block

h. Finally I added ran the animation and saw the objects collide

I liked Blender but it is going to take a long time to get good at it. I need a lot of practice.

Video¶

Both of these videos are of myself testing the cloth physic and the collision object physic

Fusion 360¶

a. First I created a regular cylinder then extruded a hole through the center for the camera lense.

Next I created a larger cylinder on each side for the wheels of the drone.

I decided I wanted the base of the drone to slide into the wheel so I create an offset of 0.5 inches from the circumference of the base and used that shape to cut into both wheels.

I then used the shell command to hollow out from the inside up the exterior of the cylinder to make it look more like wheels.

I like Fusion the most out of all of these because i’ve had experience with it in the past and for me it is the easiest to work with from a User standpoint.

AI Cad¶

I use the maker World Ai sculpture generator to create a 3D cad model of my friends face and then printed it out.

Process¶

A. First I had to upload the picture of my friend.

My friend

B. Then I took the model it generated after buying it with the in-website currency of 10 coins and sent it to Bambu.

C. From here I printed it and checked if there were any flaws. There was not. 10/10 would recommend if you want good looking statues of people.

The finished product

Credits¶

I took ideas and principles from each of these people’s documentation to try and improve my own work.

• Alana Duffy
• Ryan Kim
• Noah Smith

Problems¶

Blender¶

Unfortunately Mrs. Horstman and I had trouble locating my animation after finally rendering it. She is currently working on finding out more information. I had trouble getting the video to work. My computer restarted and I thought I lost my Fusion 360 work because I did not know what it was saved as and could not find it, but then later found it.

Fusion¶

So I has spent all this time creating my model, taking ideas from tutorials, and working through basic problems such as modeling errors, when suddenly my knee hits the PC. And then BOOM. No more screen, no more keyboard, no more nothing. The computer was still on, it was just completely unresponsive. Luckily computer expert Will Calloway was able to fix it by testing the PC with another monitor and resetting the battery or something, to be honest I kind of have no idea what he did, but yay Will! Anyway I when I got back it I couldn’t find my model anywhere and I thought that it must have been deleted when the computer reset. This was so annoying, because later on, on my personal computer I finally found my model. So I had wasted time making a second model that I didn’t need. I was going to smash my computer but then remembered I just had it fixed so I didn’t.