Motion Module- Day 2

We finally finished making our design on SolidWorks. It took a lot of time making sure that the pieces were the right dimensions and to assemble them correctly. One of our concerns when working with SolidWorks was what dimension we should make the holes for the teflon rods to pass through. We didn't want them to be too big so that the circles would fall off, but we also wanted the rods to actually fit in the holes. It's such a small adjustment in the diameter that we really didn't what to expect. In the end we decided to make the diameter of the hole the exact diameter of the teflon rod, which is .25 inches.
This is what our design looked like in the end:

In order to print out all our pieces for this assembly, we created a drawing on SolidWorks with all our parts. This is what it looked like:The printing process was not as easy as we expected. There was a problem with the drawing, (some of the outlines of certain parts were of a different shade of red than usual), which made the laser cut one of pieces incorrectly. So we spent quite a bit of time fixing the problem and adjusting the parts on our drawing so that we would use the least amount of plastic possible. We were finally able to print and all we had to do was assemble the parts and see if our design needed any adjustments. Here's a picture of the laser-cutting process: