Blog Entry #3

👽 Summary of Week 5 👽

In week 5, we learnt about how to do manual drawings and use Fusion 360. During the lesson, we were taught about one-point and two-point perspective drawing and we were tasked to draw various objects. Below is my attempt on a two-perspective drawing of a ☕ coffee maker ☕.

Manual Perspective Drawing:

Drawing in perspective was way harder than I had expected, especially since I had absolutely no clue on how to draw objects that were curved and was just winging my way through it in hopes it will somewhat resemble a coffee maker 😅😅. In the end, even though it looks kind of ugly, I'm still quite proud of my efforts since it was only my first time 😺. 

We then moved on to drawing my group's product.

This was a two-point perspective on the 🌊 aquarium filter 🌊 product that my group had come up with. Thankfully, there wasn't as many curves to be drawn as compared to the coffee maker 😌 and I would say this one was much better after some practice.

Fusion 360 Sketch:

Afterwards, we played around with the Fusion 360 app to create multiple things such as a keyring and 🖼 photo frame 🖼 which at first was quite difficult to maneuver around since we were very new to the application. There were many different functions that were available and I had no idea what a lot of them did. However, at the end, fortunately I managed to get the hang of creating simple objects and below was the

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photo frame

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that my group created.
  

Practical 2:

During practical 2, we were tasked to produce a cardboard model using a variety of cardboard joineries. The only requirement was that we had to use at least 6 different joineries. 

Practical 2 was quite fun as we had a lot of creative freedom to design whatever we wanted with the cardboard that we were given, as long as we followed the one requirement which was surprisingly harder than we had expected. The way my group had gotten the inspiration for the design was honestly quite funny as our inspiration randomly came from the cover of the box of cardboard tools we were given, which was a 🚘 car 🚘. 

Initially, it was Jian Lun, Devin, Gayathri and I who were working on a car as Alex spontaneously decided he wanted to create a car for himself to take home 😹.

This was me cutting out the car door for our first car 😀😀

However, after awhile, we realised the measurements and having to cut out the different sides of the car would be too time consuming and we would not be able to complete it within the stipulated time period since we had made it way too big 😭😭. In the end, we decided to work together on the car Alex was working on since it was much smaller and miraculously, he had somehow single handedly progressed much further with his car as compared to the combined efforts of the 4 of us ??? 😂😂. 

Finally, the car had used these joineries:

• L - brace: car seat
• Slot + Tab: car door
• Flange: car steering wheel
• Skewer: flag decoration
• Hole: to insert decorations through such as the headlights.

We then decided to put our own personalised touches to it by writing our own signatures on the different sides of the car and decorated it using markers and it was finally done.

Finished product:

Front view

Back view

In the end, I realised that we probably should have measured out the dimensions of the car properly and did some sort of pre-planning to avoid not finishing within the time limits again. This time, we were just extremely lucky that Alex decided to pursue a side objective and make his own car as that had inadvertently become our backup plan and saving grace.