Mouse Progress

Sock it to me.

So, starting with the mouse wheel, I decided it was a much better idea to add the little ribs onto the wheel, rather than, well anything else, because I'm a moron, but whatever, I do what I want. So, onto progress of the wheel:

I have technically done it, that being said I'm not really happy with it, I mean, it does not look as good as I had hoped, but I have been procrastination doing this now for like 30min, and that's long enough to, perhaps, move on to more pressing issues, so Ill try to fix the PCB.

AH HA, HAHAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I WIN

And, I did it. Again, I was so focused, that I forgot to take photos of me doing it, but it turned out to be really easy. After using a surface to split the parts, I then just used the move/copy tool to, move the object, which was then just mated again. After that I combined the solid bodies, and there. Done. All good. No problems.

You have no idea how boss I feel right now.

And with that, I will end for the night, as my mind has gone.

The next stage

So, with the two week break being over, and it being time to put face to grindstone,

Ive really got to stop taking things so literally.

I decided it was about time to grab the mouse and start thinking about actually starting this project. Which, you, the reader, will be proud to know, I actually did. Apart from thinking ideally about a few things, it was the only real homework I did, which I'm both proud of and slightly ashamed. But what you gonna do.... Nuffin, as previous experience has showed.

So, it was time to start with the mouse. This is the sucker in question:

I actually found a slightly helpful image of the mouse, from a Microsoft site... I know right?

So anyways, apart from some of the organic curves, it really didn't look to hard, I've used surfaces before, in Auto-CAD and some really old cad package my school used before they had inventor, which was rubbish and really really really really had for a year 10 tech student to understand, but alas, it was a private school.

Rather than tackling the outside surface, which would be the logical option, i went straight for the PCB, because 1. its mostly square, and 2. it was the easiest to do, while watching tv. (look, its not my fault, the latest Game of Thrones had come out, and Im a sucker for watching Geoffry get hurt in any way possible)

I both hate you now, and in any other thing you ever do, because YOU ARE A BAD MAN.....boy.....thing.

Anyways, the effects of doing uni work while watching tv became apparent as soon as I looked at it at uni, as the next picture will show.

its a bit hard to see, but the funny thing with the circle is meant to line up with the button on the other side

Anyway, because I'm way to stubborn for my own good, I decided it would be easier to fix, rather than start again, so to do this, I will split it using surfaces, and reposition it. should be okay. I am actually yet to do it at the time of writing this post, cause Im scared, and I'm going to own the crap out of the clicky wheel. BUHAHAHAHAHA

Im coming after you, you smug bastard.

The End of Pump Action as we know it.

Oh hai there, Its all good, I got all the Drawings in the face.....

So, the drawings went rather smoothly, really, compaired to the rest of the pump action bottle anyway.

It went so well infact I didnt end up taking any pictures, except of the title block, which I have just realised is wrong, as it doesnt include a third angle projection simble.

man i am flipping king at hide and seek.

So aside from that, the project went quite well, after submitting it on firday night (something I hope never to do again) I realised also that the outer lid was too big for the bottle, and I had forgotten to correct it. I really think you should be giving me extra marks for marking my own work and being so honst, but if not well..

I was going to have a photo of someone (probs tom cruse) (cruise? whatever) holding a solidworks logo hostage, but the computers in this lab dont have paint..... Not sure why, as it comes installed as STANDARD and is free, so I assumed the uni would be all over it, but no, so whatever.

Anyways, So the rest of the project went really very smoothly, which was a nice change, and I handed it up on Friday, which was nice.


One problem that is still bothering me is the PACK AND GO command didnt really work very well at all, so if you are having problems opening my things, please flick me an email.


Cheers
Phill
-Cad monkey.

Pump Action Hell

Segway Military. Oh yeah.

Now that I have you attention, its time for Solidworks.

First off, today is good Friday. They city is a ghost town, the cad pools filled with the poor souls that should have finished this yesterday. Now back to work.

Above is my first attempt at a loft for my lid. Sadly this did not work. It was plagued with zero thickness errors, The single MOST annoying error Soildworks can throw at you, as it wont show you where the zero thickness is. I believe its because the french hate the rest of the world, and this is their way at getting back at us, others just think its a bit hard to program, what ever.

This is the first thing that comes up when you put evil french man into Google.

With that plan in the toilet, I decided to take a slightly different approch. 

 So then that happened, not really sure how, but I tried to work with it.

Then that happened, and for about an hour I tried to make them loft, but just got punched in the face with zero thickness errors.

Now your stupid nose is zero thickness

So after that happened, I stepped back, thought about it and did it a slightly better way.

Why didn't I think of this before?

With that, a quick extrude cut and some cleaning up, it was finished. Actually turned out better than I thought.

Not to shabby.

With that finished, I decided to take a stab at making the assembly, which was harder then not as hard, then harder then I thought. That being said, It did actually turn out okay. The screw thread is a little stuffed up, but as is the way of life, its not worth the pain for fixing it for the time being.

Woah, it might actually be able to work. Sweet.

So, now thats done, I can start on the drawings.

Pump Action Bottle

With the other CAD work now finished, I have moved onto the pump action bottle. The bottle itself is a very easily modeled bottle, as its a rectangle.

Boo Yeah

Then the pump action was started. This was a bit of a mofo. Because I was unable to take apart the assembly, I just had to sort of guess.

Not so bad for a guess so far

Most of these measurments for the inside are guessed, where as the outside is not.

Robbin Williams wishing you a good Monday.

Hi all,

Today I have completed the shampoo bottle, this took me a fair while, which it shouldn't have. After some instruction, I have added the both open and closed configs, so for your viewing pleasure, you can change between both.

Holy Crap, what happened? did he use configurations?

Short answer. Yes. Long answer. Yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

Witch craft

With this finally being complete, I will now move onto my custom bottle, which to be honest, I'm going to cheat on slightly... By cheat I mean, I was going to drag the splines to change the shape, and create my custom bottle, because it took me freaking ages to model that stupid cap and lid bit.

ITS MORE THAN 30% DIFFERENT

With this done, I have copied the assembly and have both configs working for the Custom bottle, with the open and closed lid. Now, onto the file tree. Because I'm useless, I havnt been naming my files as I should have been, and now I get the pleasure of going through and renaming it all. Yeah. Awesome.

Yeah, me neither.

So to fix this I'm going through everything and remaining it the way it should be, like this:

If only it were that easy.

Oh wait, it is.