CNC Mill
Our project was to make a widget in Inventor, then put it into Fusion 360 and run simulations on it. We started with a sheet of paper with the widget drawn out on gird paper, and had to figure out the measurements from that. The small triangles were .25 inches. The original box was 1 in by 3 inches by 1 inch.
Using the drawing, I recreated the widget in Inventor, and used the process of sketching, dimension, and extruding. Then, after the widget was finished, I put it into Fusion 360, and began to add the G-code by adding paths.
After making the widget in Inventor and adding the G-code and paths in Fusion 360, I could finally make my widget. Taking the G-code and putting it on my flashdrive, I then went to the Innovation Center to get the block of foam and attach tape so that I could put it in the CNC mill. The first widget that I made broke, but I made a second one that turned out OK.
I learned how to use Fusion 360, which is very similar to Inventor, and how to turn drawings on paper into 3-D objects on the computer, and then make that into an object by cutting it out with a machine like the CNC mill.