MEAM.Design - MEAM 101 - DISSECT
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
(in lab on Thursday, October 16th)
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 Wednesday, October 22nd)
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, October 30th November 6th)
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 noon on Thurday, November 6th Wednesday, November 12th)
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.
(image credit: http://madspeitersen.deviantart.com/)