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Fusion Cad assignment

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In this Fusion assignment I was assigned to do something not that complicated in CAD. I decided to do a water bottle brcause it was really easy and can show a decent amount of basic skill in CAD.

Sketching

The first step was to do a sketch of the bottle. The bottle is in two parts, the first part is the actual bottle and the second bart is the lid. I made a sketch of half of it not really regarding the sizes.

Extruding

Then I use the revolve tool to make the bottle shape. After that I had to worry about making a way the lit and bottle can fit together. So I started by using the helix tool and make a new sketch then use the sweep tool to create screw like teeths on the bottle.

I did the same on the Lid but with the sweep I made it remove so it can perfectly fit onto the bottle. after making a hole that is the right size. in the cap I used a sketch and used the center point circle tool to make a circle then used the extrude tool to remove a hole through the original design.

For the cap you may have noticed a small cylinder on top of it, it was mainly used as a point to recognize if I did my assembly right in the future.

After these steps I still had to make a hole in the bottle. This time differently I used the shell tool because it was easy and also because the irregular shape of the bottle.

Assembly

The Last step was to do the assembling. First I created a fastened mate on the bottle to the origin point. After that I put a cylindrical mate on the cap to the bottle. Last I made used the screw motion tool to make the Lid act like a screw so it can go on the bottle as I designed it to. Now to explain why the cylinder on top of the Lid is added, the reason for that is because it is easy to see if the screw motion actually works because it it really hard to tell if the Lid is rotating in a circular motion without adding anything.

Mechanical drawing

BOM

AI usage

AI was not used at any point in this assignment

Link to Project

https://sgs.onshape.com/documents/55bbaac79922e521e3f190d0/w/b7286ad062cb23d4a43e1df4/e/eae1d7e77a2745ae59d8ddef?renderMode=0&uiState=68ef120c644af4ae71e0fde0

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    mcrompton

    Good job, Jacob. I like your thinking and the fact that you explored new tools, such as the helix and shell tools, to get the design where you wanted it. You’ve hit all of the requirements for the assignment, but I’d like to make 2 suggestions for future CAD work. First, your mechanical drawing could be spread out and organized a little better to demonstrate the links between the parts and projections. You could include the BOM directly on this drawing. Second, I’d persevere on the mates. See if you can get that top to actually screw together in the assembly. I wonder if another approach to designing the interlocking parts would be to helix one part and then use that part as a tool to cut out the corresponding pattern in the other. Might not have enough tolerance to work but would ensure that the two parts actually match.

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