F-CAD Drawings

 CHAPTER NINE: LOGO DESIGN      I have even extended by CAD aptitude to Graphics and Design applications by using it to make a logo design for a company I am currently contracted to: Valor Africa.  The design is built completely by joining and subtracting 3D objects. Parts of it were also done by extruding 2D wireframe objects into 3D solids. None of the letters were made with a text-writing or editing tool.  It took 4 hours to build, excluding the conceptualization stage where I came about the actual structuring of the letters and figures. Adjusting the color codes of the objects gave different shades to the logo.

 CHAPTER EIGHT: VALORISATION The Programmable Mucin Extractor       This is the latest of my designs. On the 6th of June 2021, I was contracted by an Ireland-based company; Valor Africa , an agricultural sustainability and valorization company, to develop and design a machine that is capable of systematically extracting slime from the African snail,    Achatina fulica .  The machine has since been moved in for fabrication, where I am closely monitoring and supervising the process of its fabrication.  Abstract on The Machine      The Programmable Slime Extractor is the very first of its kind, and hence will be patented to Valor Africa as a company-developed machine.  The machine will incorporate the use of   PLUs to run the processes of the machine. First the snails are prepared and loaded unto the screen/basket, in the machine. Then programmable valve-controlled nozzles are made to open and spray cold (done by a ...

 CHAPTER SEVEN: AEROSPACE The Hail Mary Operator      At this juncture I was just perusing different CAD online platforms searching for a worthy CAD drawing challenge. A drawing that will be complex enough for me to test how proficient I really am with CAD. Then a thought came to me: to model an aircraft. I choose to draw a prototype of 'The Spitfire' - the British jet fighter used during the second world war.        I nicknamed mine 'The Hail Mary -1'  , abridged and inscribed on the body of the aircraft as "HM -1" . This is so name with respect to the popular colloquial:  "a Hail Mary operation/method" signifying  any last-ditch effort after several previous abortive efforts.  General Norman Schwarzkopf described his strategy during the Persian Gulf War to bypass the bulk of Iraqi forces in Kuwait by attacking in a wide left sweep through their rear as a "Hail Mary" plan.      Hence my own version of the ...

  CHAPTER SIX: STUDENT PROJECT MODELS      I have handled quite a number of undergraduate students' final year thesis/project models; all of which were eventually manufactured. Some of these designs include:  A Passive Desalination Solar Still Apparatus An Electrical and Solar Powered Oven A Passive Solar water Heater Multipurpose Automated Hydraulic Press Below are some CAD  isometric projections/views of the aforementioned machines.  For the abstract and full details on the parts, procedures and operations of these machines, please feel free to contact me via email provided on the profile. I used both AutoCAD and Solidworks for the drawings.  The Passive Desalination Solar Still Apparatus:    2.   The  Electrical and Solar Powered Oven:   3. The  Passive Solar water Heater:    4. The  Multipurpose Automated Hydraulic Press:

 CHAPTER FIVE: IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT Undergraduate Thesis Machine Model: The Motorized Torsion Testing Apparatus An Abstract of The Machine A motorized torsion testing machine capable of determining the shear properties of materials according to American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) specifications was developed. The machine provided an economical, accurate, less laborious, and fast means of performing the standard ASTM torsion experiment on the specimens used. It also provided opportunity to study the specimens under torsion. Fundamental design analysis and calculations were carried out in order to determine and select materials of appropriate strength and sizes for the machine components.  This design was made and fabricated by my project group, led by me. The machine was later installed in the school's mechanical/materials testing lab for conducting  Non Destructive Tests (NDT) on the specimens of  engineering materials for student labs. We had an 'A' ...

CHAPTER FOUR: TIME TO FLY The Quadcopter Drone      In the cotemporary time, drones or UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) are basically used for aerial operations. They find applications in several fields of life. In farming and agriculture they are used for aerial application of agro-chemicals on crops or across places which are normally not physically accessible. In the military, drones are used for video spying, or monitoring of a place. This is achieved by attaching a camera to the drone. Military drones are also used for weapons carriage and delivery. In other spheres of life, drones can be used for video coverage of events, or elevated places, such as sports,  ceremonies,  activities on high buildings,  etc.      I produced this CAD model of a drone during the first semester of my final year as an undergraduate, as an assignment for a CAD/CAM course we offered at the time. The 1week long homework earned me an 'A' in the course.  ...

CHAPTER THREE: PROJECT ONE The Beverage Drinks Processing Machine So this machine was actually the very first fully integrated 3D model of a machine I ever drew. It was given as my project on completion of my 3-4month training classes on AutoCAD; a project in fulfillment for a certificate of proficiency or mastery of AutoCAD.  It is a replica of the Automated Grain Drinks processing machine model, published in the ResearchGate online journal by I.M. Gana, A. Gbabo, P.A. Idah, and Anuonye Julian.  After 2weeks of intensive analysis and drawing, I was able to come up with the model, earning a Distinction in my certificate. I posted the drawings on GRABCAD COMMUNITY, an online CAD interactive platform where I belonged; and has since had about 122 downloads.  (see link: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://grabcad.com/library/automated-grain-drinks-processing-machine-1-1&ved=2ahUKEwjb87Ddr9D4AhXM_IUKHap7CdAQFnoECBUQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2Q-y...

 CHAPTER TWO: 3D- THE FIRST APPROACH      While 2D drawings (orthographic projections) only depict an aspect of an object such as the front, back, top and side elevations; 3D drawings on the other hand are the height of all drawing viewpoints, and they represent a full, real life perspective of objects and structures, hence are the most exacting of drawings. The 3D drawings are mostly known as isometric projections.         Moving from 2D to 3D is the most fitting thing to do next after mastering the art of 2D drawing. 3D primitives such as box, cones, solid spheres, torus, helix, cylinders, prisms, are combined, subtracted and intersected to produce these 3D models. To obtain an even more byzantine structure, modifying tools such as fillet, align, extrude, sweep, press-pull, offset, explode etc., are used. While AutoCAD provides an avenue to convert 2D wireframe drawings into 3D objects, or to directly build them from the primitives, AutoCAD...