Exercise 5. 3D Printing

Labwork: Fusion 360

I used Fusion 360 to 3D print a whistle.

Homework

I decided to use Fusion 360 to create a whistle stl file. I started by creating a rectangle and circle to form a basic whistle.

I then extruded the the whistle shape to 8 mm.

I then created a midplane. I used it to divide the whistle body in half. However, I now had two solid bodies, when I needed one hollow body. I discovered the shell command to hollow out the whistle. I confirm the dimensions of the whitlse using the Measure command.

I created a sphere and move the sphere on the wall. I add a midplane to the whistle body. I tried to move the midplane. The midplane does not move and i then tried to create a plane on two faces. The resulting plane was not the answer. I was having a difficult time trying to cover the left side of the wistle

I then tried adding a plane on the side of the wall of the wistle using various construct choices to no avail.

Finally, I realize that if tried to hollow the body, not the seperate faces, I could create a cavity.

I split the body with the construct midplane command and the modify split body command.

I used the create command to make a sphere and I moved it the side of the whistle.

I began to worry the sphere or pea was two samll at 2 mm. I was afraid that it would not stay attach dring the printing process. I tried several times to rescale the ball so I deleted the existing sphere and created a new 3 mm ball.

I then used the the modify combine command to to form one body out of the two seperate bodies.

Now I added another sketch to the front face of the whistle. I drew a rectangle and used the the extrude and cut command.

I repeated the process on the top of the whistle to make an exit hole.

I then used the modify command to join the body of the whistle with the sphere.

I know have made one body that i can print. I right clicked on the body and selected save as STL.

The Autodesk Print Studio option appeared. I tried it, but the utily only works for a few select printers. I use a Polar 3d Printer which is not list. I do have an stl file so I am ready to print. See printing the whsitle.