These are the pictures of my first few thoughts of maze ideas and pictures of mazes that inspired me.
I tried multiple designs before the circle like the turkey, then the leaf, and the Christmas tree before deciding that all of those designs may be too challenging and they may take to long to make compared to making a more simple maze. So I settled on a circular design to still make my maze still somewhat unique.
After I was done dimensioning the diameter of the circle to 8 inches, I extruded it by 3/4 inches.
I then created the circular paths cut them out of the extruded circle. I cut into the circle 1/4 inches.
Next, I made the start to the maze by making a little opening at the very top. I cut this down to be level with the paths.
After that, I made the paths between the circular paths to make the maze possible. I cut them out to be level with the other paths.
Finally, I made obstacles to make the maze harder. I put the obstacles in such a way that the obstacles made there only one way to win the maze.
This is the finished product of my maze in Inventor.
Once finished with Inventor, I went to Fusion 360 to prepare my maze to be cut out. I made sure all of the settings were right in the set-up and then I started setting up the rest.
After finishing the set-up requirments to print correctly I made sure the tool was good to be used and I customized it to fit the project.
I then selected all of my bottom paths to ensure that the paths would print good.
Then I filled in more specific settings to finish off working in Fusion 360.
I then previewed it to see if I did everything right in Fusion 360 and if it would print okay on the Router. The preview didn't run into any problems so I saw it fit to print my maze.
This is the maze once it was printed out.
I then had to create my name on Illustrator and engrave it onto my maze so I designed it in Illustrator using pure blue because otherwise, the laser would melt my maze.
This is a picture of the laser engraving my name into the maze.
This is the maze once it was all printed and my name was engraved.
What I learned
I learned how to use Fusion 360 in this rotation as well as learning how to prepare an Inventor design to print on a router.