I enjoyed practicing Arabic calligraphy before coming to MIT. There is some beauty in the letters, the variation of fonts, and the rules behind each. Though I stopped practicing since I came here due to class work, I still enjoy doing some personal designs using illustrator. However, that is in 2D. This week's prompt was the perfect opportunity to explore this interest.
I had sooo many design ideas, here are some of them:

I designed my name using two fonts. The left design is in Al-Thuluth font. The right design is in Al-Kufi font. I designed the Al-Thuluth piece using a Calligraphy app and divided it into cubes and added more stylization in Illustrator. Al-Kufi design was completely in Illustrator since it is simply using cubes.

One tip about exporting a design with a clipping mask is to export it as an image and convert it to SVG. Otherwise, the clipped parts will appear in the SVG file. I made the designs as elements I can repeat, experiment and reuse for one of the ideas sketched above. Once I have a process and an idea of the capabilities of those program is to replace my name with a quote.

Experimenting with Fusion360

At the beginning, I wanted to start simple by using my name design, extruding it in Fusion 360, and just smooth the edges with fillet feature. Fusion couldn't create the fillet as it couldn't handle all the curvature in the design. It asked me to provide "sensible" design. Another error was the following:

I tried adjusting the design and selecting curve by curve to identify the issue, and it appear that is couldn't smooth all the thin extrusions. I gave up on making Fusion 360 apply this and moved on to wrapping. I wanted to wrap the 2D design on an organic plane to reach a design that cannot be done via a subtractive process. Similarly, Fusion 360 wasn't able to wrap the 2D design fully and well. I gave up to the fact that Fusion is not for artistic purposes and started learning blender.

Experimenting with Blender

I started learning blender and followed the famous tutorial of making a donut. I skipped through the parts that doesn't relate to designing like rendering. One interesting feature was the node, which felt like coding with blocks. However, I ran into many beginner problems that I was not sure how to solve. I wanted to add sprinkles but instead got giant spheres.

So, I was satisfied with the following OK donut design.

I started trying in Blender what Fusion failed in. First is making a fillet. Blender didn't execute it well too. The main reason that because the imported SVG had weird inner edges which where not easy to delete or dissolve.

This was the result of making a bevel modification in blender. There are some weird artifact and the design got cut in some places.

Now I understand why there are not many 3D designs for Arabic Calligraphy out there, it gets complex very quickly. It is not the easiest to write the letter in Blender too to avoid using SVG files.

I also tried wrapping the design around a cylinder which Fusion failed at. I used the same method as I made the icing on top of the donut. However, it did not work because of the weird edges in the main design which made the extrusion explode spirally.
As both of those attempts failed and I couldn't find a fix in Google, I decided to move to a geometric font called "Kufi".

To make the design hard to make through subtractive manufacturing, I wanted to construct the geometry as a lattice like in this tutorial. It showed how to make simple, BCC and FCC lattice structures. First, I tried importing the Kufi Design as an SVG from Illustrator to see how Blender process even simple designs, but it still created unwanted edges. Since it is a simple design, I traced it in Blender.
The approach of creating the was interestingly different than Fusion 360, where here I was extruding to create the object to control the vertices location which will make the lattice.

However, because I was still learning, I didn't place vertices correctly to reach the design I imagined. However, I was not sure about the tools to reorganize the vertices and reach the shape I imagined. The following is the lattice I ended up with.

I was satisfied to only take the following part that looked good to potentially print it.

Since wrapping and making organic shapes wasn't successful for me, I decided to go simpler. I took my name design, split to square frames randomly to have 6 face to create a box. Then, I took the faces to assemble in Fusion360 because I wasn't good at moving assembling things in Blender.

First, I created the cube element:

Then, I experimented with overlapping them inside each other. First, I did some math to scale up the new cube correctly and make its side equal to the cube diagonal of the smaller sube. I made some construction plane and points but positioning it was trick. I ended up moving it freely until I reach a close result to what I imagined.

Link to Fusion360 model