MEAM.Design - MEAM 101 - DISSECT

Team formation
(in lab on Thursday, March 6th)

You are going to working with two or three other people from your lab section. Once you have found a group, place your names on the teams page (and please note your group number, as you will use this throughout the remainder of the project).


Project Organization Tips

This project is going to fine tune your SolidWorks skills, hopefully give you some insights into how others solve mechanical-design challenges, and it is definitely going to tax your organizational talents. Here are some tips to keep things moving along smoothly:

  • use PDM
  • establish a part/file naming convention including a UNIQUE identifier, and stick to it
  • think in terms of subassemblies
  • establish a mating convention
  • consider the creation of a google docs spreadsheet to track the parts of your object (number, filename, mating parts, subassembly, who's responsible, etc.)
  • when you begin dissection, do so in a careful and controlled manner, and it is highly recommended that you photograph and label parts as you go


Object Approval
(via Canvas before 11:59pm on Monday, March 17th)

Your section TA must approve the object that your team will dissect. The object must have sufficient internal complexity to merit dissection.


Individual Renderings
(due by noon on Tuesday, March 25th)

By now, everyone in your group should have modeled at least one interesting part. Each of you must now create a high-quality (1600x900 JPG, "best" quality) PhotoView rendering of the most interesting part (or subassembly) that you have created. Name the file as 101-DISSECT-RENDER-X-PennKey.JPG (where X is your team letter and PennKey corresponds to the part of your email address before the @ sign), and upload it to the Canvas assignment.


Assembly Submission
(due by section on Thursday, April 3rd)

We will extract your full assembly from your team's PDM folder, so you need to make sure that it is all there before the deadline.


Exploded View or Animation
(due by section on Thurday, April 3rd)

You can either:

a) Create a beautiful 11x17-inch exploded-view poster of your dissected object

or

b) Create an explosion animation video of your dissected object.



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