Monday, March 31, 2014

New part

Today, I will begin a new part. This part looks to be very challenging, and will challenge my understanding of planes.


Monday, March 17, 2014

One day challenge!

Today, I gave myself a part to complete, giving myself only the day to have it completely done. With only a few minutes left in class, I did my last extrusion and the part was complete. Today was one of the first days i've tried making a plane and drawing on the new plane. Most of the time, I just use the default planes.



Friday, March 14, 2014

Making a new part from scratch

Today, I decided to test out my SolidWorks knowledge by making a part, using only the measurements. At first, the cut at a 45° was confusing, but then I realized i just had to make the extrusion from another plane and it was easy after that.


Monday, March 10, 2014

Weldment complete

At last, the weldment is completely done. The main structure of this box is square tubing. There was a lot of cutting and trimming since most of the time, the tubing either intersected or did not reach out far enough. Then gussets were added to help to support the structure of the box. Gussets are very important to many designs, such as bridges. On August 1st, 2007, The 1-35W Mississippi River bridge that carried 140,000 people a day in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collasped because of 16 underdesigned gussets. 


Friday, March 7, 2014

Weldment progress

This tutorial was perhaps the longest one i have ever done, including some confusion and a lot of new features. Gusset was something i had never known about, and had no clue what it was. However, now i have an idea of what it is and a decent understanding of how to use it. This tutorial is not completely finished, but it should be done soon.


Monday, March 3, 2014

Weldment

This week I have began working on a weldment tutorial, which begins with just the outline of a box. Next the weldments will be added on and fixed.