Project Four Practice

We had two days of tutorial for SolidWorks, a program we will have to use in project four which officially starts tomorrow. We received the brief yesterday, which was great as it gives me time to think about what I think we could do to fulfil it.

For the tutorial on Wednesday we made a cube, put two identical holes in it, then made pins for the holes and put them in the holes. Sound simple? Its not. CAD's SolidWorks is one of the most confusing, infuriating and difficult programs ever. The delete button doesn't work in it and neither does control Z. It is only for windows so we all had to use the macs in the computer lab because they have both windows and mac.

Today we made a squished tube-like shape and the top half of a question mark, then tried to replicate a tripod design before we were shown how to render our images and how to get them on drawings.