The assignment for this week was plain and open - Make something BIG
As a learner, I wasnt sure what I should make. I wanted to show a clear design of what I was planning to make. I decided to start the Webinar classes with Onshape and practice it well. My friend Frank and I could share a particular file of design and work on in concurrently. This really improved our skills on the same. We also realized the advantage of Filee sharing in Onshape as it comes with bigger storage capacity allocation as compared to private work
I decided to make a table. It looked simpler but it could give me adequate practical skills necessary
I made my first sketch. I had to work on various dimentions with an imagination of the 3D look.
This is the Extrude of the sketch above. It gave me alot of hope of success with my design
Now another sketch for would be the table leg. Here, I had to apply extra skill of curving out the shape from the rectangular sketch. More meaasurements had to be used
And so, it's extrude was out and it looked great
I had to rotate it through different views to confirm my work
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To start Assembling, you click on the Assembling, you can click on the Assembly button and Insert the various parts you want to assemble. You can rename these tabs as best suit you.
I was able to complete my design as expected and proceeded to the CNC Machine
Files
Download the Table partsDescription
The table has for pieces of legs where each two are expected to fix to each other by a connector. The connector which has 4 holes 2 in each ending side will the fixed to hold firmly the table legs using the connector fixers. The table tops which are two in number will however be laid on top and using the their holes fix themselves on the protruding pieces of the legs facing up. There you have your Safari (portable) table
Assembling process
Assembling process contunues
Assembling process contunues and almost done
Final touches
Hurraaa!!!! See below wonderful images
CNC MACHINING
Now, I had to redo the work in a 2D in order to be able send to our CNC Machine. Meanwhile I have to understand the machine operation
It was a learning session first to understand the machine
The workpieace would be fixed on the table as this sample was
We had to do some test to understand the settings and Safety precautions
Drilling
In the event, some mechanical and electronics challenges were found and would be fixed by the concerned Engineer. These are common problems with locally made machines and so prone to some technical challeges
