Brake Bracket Project
The brake bracket didn't require any research, so I won't have any (obviously.)
We received this helpful sheet from Ms. Proctor with all the dimensions we needed to know so we could make our brake bracket.
I designed my brake bracket in Inventor with no issues except for figuring out the diagonal sides. I could't line it up; then I realized there was a tool that would do it for me.
I uploaded my project to Fusion 360 and finished getting everything set to upload it to my flash drive.
No, this isn't some illusion. This is the tool path the mill followed to cut out the bracket, taking a little over 15 minutes to complete.
This is the mill cutting out my project. As I mentioned, it took about 15 minutes to finish cutting it out. This step went smoothly with no hassle.
Here's the final project, as you can see I laser engraved my name and class hour into the front of it.
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What I Learned
I learned the difference between 2-D contouring and 3-D contouring in Fusion 360. I also learned how to set up the mill. Putting the file into the machine was slightly annoying but overall the whole design process went pretty smoothly.