Week 4: CAD, CAM, Plants, and Prusas

The Vase

I followed Kevin's tutorial and made my vase on Fusion360 before importing the stl files to PrusaSlicer.

I played around with scaling my vase a bit, before making it a bit bigger than it was originally.

I then went to Madison's tutorial on how to use vase mode in PrusaSlicer. From the original screen, I went into print settings and changed the vertical settings so the spiral vase box was checked. I also changed the number of layers on the bottom in the horizontal settings. It was originally 4 but after a bit of playing around with the value I wanted, i decided on having 6 layers.

From that, I went back to the preview before looking at layers mode to see my newly hollowed out shape!

From there it was only a matter of making sure I had the right filament and machine selected before I exported the gcode to an sd card and was all set to print!

Printing

I went through printing like I would regularly, selecting my file on the machine, selecting and inserting my filament, etc. My print went relatively smoothly other than a bit of a mess up in one ofvthe bottom layers, but it didn't mess it up and isn't very noticable.
This was my final product!

Watering Can

Using my prior knowledge from previous projects, and the skills learned in the tutorials for this assignment, I started designing my watering can. I made a defined ellipse and extruded it, before creating a new sketch on the top of that surface, adding a point on the edge and a construction line to define that new sketch. From this, I created a plane from the tangent of a point and a side.

I then made a circle on this new plane where the spout would come from. I offset this plane and created an angled plane for the spout before adding another circle.

Next, I extruded this face back into the base of the can itself, joining these two elements together.

After, I went back to the angled plane and created another offset plane from that, where I eventually made a smaller circle.

I then used the loft tool to connect these two circles to create a spout that gradually got smaller as it reached what would be the head.

I repeated the process with the offset plane and loft tool to create the head of the watering can, before shelling out this entire shape.

I then went back to the sketch of the larger circle at the head of the spout and created another, extruding it a bit from the rest of the head. On this surface, I added smaller circles before extruding them to cut through this shape, creating the holes in the head for the water to pass through.

Once the construction of the shape of the watering can was finished, I used the fillet tool to smooth the outer edge of the rim of the can.

Finally, I checked to make sure that all of my sketches were defined (which they were) and I was finished!

My stl files for the vase and the watering can can be found here!