CAD Part II: Handphone Holder ʕ•́ᴥ•̀ʔっ♡

For the second part of CAD, we were tasked to design and create our own handphone stand in Fusion360 (using parametric) that can be made using a laser cutting machine.

For this task, I decided to create a heart shaped handphone stand as shown above!

Here's how I did it:

1. I started off by adding a parametric of 40mm for the base of my handphone stand.

2. Create an inscribed polygon (40mm, 3 sides) ; Create a construction line from center point to the top of the triangle then click Modify - Sketch Dimension to create a rectangle.

3. Added another Sketch Dimension (25mm, 125 deg).

4. Create a 3-point rectangle (4mm) above the sketch dimension created in step 3 ; Create 2x 3-point arc connected to the sides of the triangle ; Go to Constraints - Tangent to make the 2 arcs identical.

5. Go to Modify - Trim and trim off any unwanted lines in the heart shape.

6. Go to Modify - Offset and offset the heart by -4mm ; Click 'Finish Sketch' once done.

7. Extrude the heart to the parametric created earlier in step 1.

8. Create Sketch and click on the base of the handphone stand ; Create Textbox and key in desired text ; Extrude text by -0.2mm.

9. Lastly, Modify Appearance by adding colours. (I used Metallic Black and Enamel Glossy White) ; And I added my favourite Pochacco again! 💖

Then, Voilà! My personalised handphone stand! (>‿◠)✌

I used the parametric design on the base of the handphone stand because I realised different phones come with different size and thickness. By applying the parametric design to the base, I can change the size of the base easily. This allows my handphone stand to cater to the different sizes of handphones in the market.

To conclude, It was a fun time designing and creating my own handphone stand (using parametric) on Fusion 360! Through this activity, I managed to explore the many functions Fusion 360 offers and even used them while I was creating this handphone stand!

It was my first time learning about parametric design and even applying it! However, I am sure it will not be the last. In the past, we have to manually change the parameters and even had to restart the whole sketch just to get our desired parameters. Now, with parametric design, I can change the parameters easily which saves me a lot of time and it definitely allows me to work more efficiently on Fusion 360!

Now that I am done with designing my handphone stand, I can't wait to laser cut it!

As always, thank you for reading my blog! 🙏🏼

Stay tune for my next blog on Laser Cutting! 😉