Progress report #1


Progress Report for Marker Holder 
The first project of the Engineering 1 class was to design and fabricate a marker holder. I was given around 2 to 3 weeks to finish this project. The purpose of it was for students getting familiar with steps that an engineer would experience and be prepared for the future.
The project is divided into very specific tasks from measuring object, drawing object in paper, drawing in Autodesk Fusion, and finally fabricate it at Maker Space of MtSAC. First, I started with using equipment for example caliper to measure radius of circles, length, height, and width of the marker holder. It required tolerance in each measurement in an acceptable range for our object. After finished collecting measurements, I used those to begin the second step of project which is drawing three different views: top, bottom, and side. This step took a little bit of time to familiar with learning how to look at object at different perspectives. Using Autodesk Fusion software to draw marker holder was the next step of the project. It is also a step that every product should go through. The next step was to start fabricating the marker holder. It combined many steps to get the project done such as using saw to cut object, marking circles, centers, holes, using file machine to get the surface smooth and clean.  
During the time of fabricating it at Maker Space, there were also some problems happened. First, when using the saw to cut the shape of marker holder from a whole C-shaped aluminum, the cutting line was not straight as I expected even though I marked the line and tried to cut it as straight as possible. The next thing was to make the surface of marker holder we just cut to be smooth by using the file machine. I did not know that the object that would be getting hot really quick. I realized by the friction between of the machine and aluminum object causing the heat. Also marking center to drill circles took a lot of time because of the tolerance in the actual marker holder. It did not have equal distance between each circle. The next obstacle was when using drill to make circle, I needed to push and keep the top of the drill press perpendicular to the surface of object. Also, I had a chance to create big circles with a drilling machine at Maker Space, it was much faster than using regular drill, but it took time to clamp object and change position of the hole each time. One last thing I had problem with was using file to make the inside of the circle smooth and clean. It did make it smoother, but it also made the surface of my object scratched. Those problem that I encountered could make my marker holder had a low quality, but at least those were experiences for many more projects in future I would do with a better quality.
As a result, I finished this project by making a complete marker holder during the time frame required from Professor Mason even though it was not as good as I expected. It was a great experience to have as an engineer student. From spending time learning how things are created to actually start making things. I learned a lot at the stage drawing top, bottom, and side views of object, but I fell behind a little bit of learning how to use Autodesk Fusion to design my marker holder. Overall, by spending and experiencing from the beginning of drafting the project to actually fabricate a complete product was very awesome even though it was not at a high quality. I also achieved what was expected from our professor.   





A)     Orthographic Drawings 

B)     Isometric Drawings
        

C)    Picture of Finished Object        



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