#objectautopsy

3D prints, after doing some tutorials on Solidworks, it was time to venture into surfaces! Here are 2 new prints made by using the surface loft tool. Both came out well, however the use of support material had left its mark. Really want to get on a machine with water soluble support material to increase surface finish!

Exploring the use of surfaces, and particularly lofting surfaces! Hopefully I’ll have some 3D models of this soon!

I’ve struggled to get hold of broken power tools, so I decided to delicately take a part my Dremel. Just like the Drill, the casing is 2 shot injection moulded, and each part is designed with housing all the electronics without having to screw in place. The use of bosses allow the screw thread to grip the joining part easily and the webbing makes the part much more robust. From here, I can look at how I can tackle housing the electronics in a multi-tool with hinged features. Time to get modelling!

Rapid Prototyping! This semester we’re getting stuck into Solidworks, and here are 2 single part models I’ve digitally created and then had scales and printed! The bottle opener is 1:1 and the Wine bottle is 1:4. Personally, I’m loving this part of the course, really getting myself involved and learning a lot through the use of Lynda.com

Spent some time this weekend looking into the mechanics of some more tools. I loved the simplicity of the Utility knife. But as this is has a die cast structure, would incorporating it into my designed artefact cause for to many manufacturing processes?

I think for my next video, I shall consider the use of a second camera which gives a top view of the workspace just to see everything coming apart from that perspective.

Just finished my first object autopsy, based around power tools. Really excited to start modelling these in solidworks. But a lot of work is going to be needed to get this right! Clearly time for a cuppa! Watch out for my video to be uploaded for the full process of disassembling my cordless.

After our introductory session by Mark into Solidworks, I took some of the theory and applied it into quickly replicating this threaded metal tube. Quite a bit of fun but I can tell that there’s going to be so much more I want to learn! Interested in learning about renders and technical drawings from CAD. Great start to the second year!