Friday, December 13, 2013

Piping (continued)

Yesterday, I began working on the tutorial for Pipe and Tube Routes. Today, the most important part of the tutorial was finished. The pipe was made curved using the spline and auto-route functions.


After the spline piping, the tutorial was completed.


Monday, December 9, 2013

Piping

Today, I began a new tutorial on piping and routing. As part of my quest to make a "U" design on solidworks with piping, this tutorial might be what will give me information on how.


Friday, December 6, 2013

I.R.L.


While Nick has been working on improving his abilities to further the design, I have been working with the mechanics team to complete the test chassis. The main body is practically done.
Next week, the wheel will be added.
Chase cutting pipe to match up the front end

The main supports are being welded to the bottom and top half

End of the Week Wrap-Up

To begin this week, I looked up a tutorial on surfacing on SolidWorks. The instructions taught me by having me build a nozzle using different functions: those functions were lofted surfacing, swept surfacing, split line, knit surface, filled surface, planar surface, revolved surface, trim surface, and extruded surface. Although I am not a master at these different functions, I now have a basic understanding of them.



Near the end of the week, my next challenge was to find a way to make a pipe on SolidWorks that could bend, similar to the shape of a U. I reopened SolidWorks Routing for the first time in what seems a while, but quickly picked up on it again. Next week I plan on continuing this challenge, since what I have found so far is unsatisfactory.


Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Surfacing on SolidWorks

This week I am starting on learning surfacing on SolidWorks. This can be very helpful for cleaning up the design model and blending surfaces together.