iPhone Cradle:
This iPhone cradle is designed to support an iPhone 13 Pro Max and has an articulating tray to adjust the orientation at which the phone sits. The final design and preliminary concepts were all modeled using Solidworks.
This design was intended to be fairly easy for me to produce myself using laser cut wood parts and a painted base made of yellow foam. The documentation of the design and drawings of the base piece and full assembly are
featured below:
featured below:
Modeling for Various Manufacturing Methods — Injection Molding:
This stud finder casing is designed to be made of injection molded ABS plastic parts. The internal components were given beforehand, and the casing was designed to fit around these parts and produce a working stud finder.
This design and all of the others in the Modeling for Various Manufacturing Methods series were created using Fusion 360. The documentation of this design is presented below:
This design and all of the others in the Modeling for Various Manufacturing Methods series were created using Fusion 360. The documentation of this design is presented below:
Modeling for Various Manufacturing Methods — Color 3D Printing:
This computer mouse was designed to take advantage of color 3D printing technologies. The mouse was a good product to design because of its handheld size; and I added color, texture, and a decal to the model to demonstrate the full capabilities of color 3D printing. The images below show this design from multiple angles, as well as the setup for color 3D printing in the GrabCAD Print software, and a cutaway view showing the proper way to model features (no thin walls) so that they can be printed successfully:
Modeling for Various Manufacturing Methods — Metal 3D Printing:
This silverware set was designed to take advantage of metal 3D printing technology; it does this by including a detail of a complicated metal lattice structure which would serve as the 3D printed component. This lattice structure was modeled using nTopology. The images below document the design of the silverware set and its wooden stand; as well as the surface modeling process used to create the precise shapes of the fork tines, knife blade, and spoon bowl; and the nTopology software used to create the lattice detail:
Modeling for Various Manufacturing Methods — Vacuum Forming:
This slow feeder dog bowl design was created to be easily produced using vacuum formed plastic. I ended up 3D printing a scaled down positive mold for this design, so I could make test models using a desktop vacuum forming machine. The design documentation and process of making models is presented below:
3D Modeling in Virtual Reality — Gravity Sketch:
This howdah, or a carriage positioned on the back of an elephant, was created as a quick exercise into designing basic forms in VR using Gravity Sketch. This tool is quite powerful and allows a wide variety of forms to be created in a gestural manner. It also allows one to immerse themselves into designs and easily experience them at a wide variety of scales. The documentation of this design is featured below:
3D Modeling in Virtual Reality — VRED Pro:
This office chair and desk were downloaded 3D models that I used in the VRED Pro software to produce a customizable product presentation scene in VR. I modeled the accompanying stand to help control some of the features of the presentation environment– such as scaling the chair model down, changing its material, changing the environment it's presented in, and adding the desk and cabinet to the scene. VRED Pro is primarily used for car design and the VR tools allow an immersive way to see new designs in full scale and in a variety of environments– but in this experiment I explored the power of this tool to present product designs as well.
The images and video below help to show the final product as it looks in the VR environment:
3D Modeling in Augmented Reality — Unity:
This video above shows my experiments using augmented reality to animate a 3D model. I had a small cardboard model of a matchbox with the image target pictured below, and the scene was set up in the Unity software so that when the image target was detected on the computer video, it would display the accompanying matchbox 3D model. The animation could also be triggered using the computer keys, and this full process can be seen in the video above.
