Vol.2: Computer-Aided Design
playing With As Much CAD As I Could
Assignment
Model (raster, vector, 2D, 3D, render, animate, simulate, ...) a possible final project, compress your images and videos, and post a description with your design files on your class page
Softwares 💻
- Inkscape
- GIMP
- OpenSCAD
- Evolventdesign Gear Generator
- Fusion360
2D
Eman the Logo:Inkscape
In this week We want to create some designs using 2D softwares. I wanted to try out Inkscape to make my face a logo inspired by Omar's funny Logo. But making it cooler and using some features I haven't touched before. "How should it look like?" I wondered. fortunately I live with a talented flatmate. She gave some tips on how to make the logo unquie which feature to highlight and so on. She made these cute drawing saying I can highlight my hair, glases or nose.
So I went and explored some tutorials about tools like the beizer tool I'm used it to cut the background and make trace my face then filling it with the fill tool. I added 2 earring that looked like galaxies with the spirals tool and added some gradient effect. I sprinkled a lot of stars on my head using the spray tool. VOILA
GIMP: The Thumbnail
I made a Thumbnail! I also made some moodboards but the thumbnail you see in the Beginning is all my doing. I first added the images as layers and scaled them, positioned them where I want them. Added the some filter effects mainly the supernova filter from "Light and Shadow" List
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Spoiler! I'm a bookworm
3D: Modeling a possible orrery
Since my final idea is either a star tracking telescope or a smart orrery , sooner or later I'll face the ultimate challenge--Gears. So in this week I wanted to make some movement.
Tinkering with TinkerCAD
I tried Modeling in TinkerCAD before for 3D Printing and Laser Cutting when I was an instructor in a program that teaches girls maker tools. However I haven't acquinted myself with the codeblocks featuere and since I decided to try OpenSCAD I want to try out something similar first so I our instructor recommended this tutorial and VOILA
OpenSCAD
OpenSCAD is a software for creating solid 3D CAD objects. It's like the the programmer's dream come true since it uses line of code for creating 3D objects from scratch or using libraries. I relied on the documentation to understand the bascis. Then I used this Library to make some gears and here's the final output . .
Also I made explored some animation in OpensCAD
Fusion360
I wanted to try the lazy susan mechanism in this week. I got Inspired by this project in the make magazinge.
- First I imported the stepper motor from GrabCAD. Then, I made a holder for the motor
- Clarified some parameters
- I used this Gear generator to created my gears
- imported the DXF files in Fusion 360.
- Created my Assembly
Render
Simulation
I used motion study in Fusion 360 to control the gears.
Animation
Video & image Compression
Once I installed it I can right-click on any image then choose the file converter application and choose the extention I want it to be compressed to. Like Neil said in the lecture I used jpeg for most photoes and png for the ones that need extra resolution
It first opens up and asks you to drag the video you want to compress. Once opened you can choose the quality of the video and I usually check always that's web-optimized. I make my videos Very Fast570 and remove the audio if present from the audio tab.
