Project

1) You must complete an assembly design. The design must incorporate mating parts, fasteners, and must utilize many of the Solidworks functions. You must also produce a drawing for each part that has proper and complete dimensioning and tolerancing, an assembly drawing and exploded drawing and other requirements (explained later in the quarter). Grading will be based on correct use of drafting conventions (proper view, dimensioning and tolerancing, etc.)

2) You have the freedom to design a fancy intricate part or assembly of your choice that utilizes the advanced features of the software. Part 2 will be graded on originality, complexity and the level of use of Solidworks for more advanced modeling functions.

You must model an interesting and relatively complicated assembly (however a VERY DETAILED single part may also be acceptable if approved beforehand). The requirement for the assembly is that it must have at least 7 distinct parts (and hopefully much more). This should be exceeded easily if the complexity of your project is adequate for the final project. An example we gave during the beginning of the quarter was the Buzz Lightyear toy. This had several parts (arms, legs, feet, hands etc.) and several components of the space suit. Work on your own project. You can do whatever you want. For example, like a car model or a robot.

You also need to do one simulation on your project. For most of you this will be a static structural analysis where you estimate a worst-case load on your design, apply that load using SolidWorks simulation and then report the maximum stresses and displacements resulting from that load.

You must show the use of some of the more advanced features of SolidWorks that you learned in this course. Other than that, you may do whatever you want, so have fun with it! Make sure to engrave your name somewhere on your assembly.

1. A short (60 second or less) video describing your project. This should be fast-paced and annotated with both narration and music. It should include unique techniques you used and challenges you had while creating the design. It should focus on all aspects of the grading criteria: originality, creativity, complexity, and the obvious use of SolidWorks modeling features. All drawings and SolidWorks renderings required to quickly describe your project in detail should be included. The project should also include one simulation - as discussed in class this will most likely be a linear static analysis. This video or a link to the video should be uploaded to the drop box on the course website.

2. A Four-View screen shot of the major parts showing the Feature Manager Tree. The image must be clear, and it should take up a full page in Landscape orientation. Make sure all features are clear and easy to see, and take screen shots of close-up views if necessary.

3. A Four-View screen shot of the assembly (full page) showing the Assembly Manager Tree.

4. Exploded view of the assembly and possible sub-assemblies. This does NOT have to be on a drawing with the BOM and balloons and such. Just create an exploded view in SolidWorks and take a screen shot, or multiple screen shots if you need to take close-up images to show more detail.
5. Written summary of your simulation including maximum displacement and stress and a few sentences discussing these results. 1-2 screen shots and a table of the results.

Items 2-5 should be combined in a single PDF file and submitted to the drop box on the course website.

You also need to write what you say in the short video in item 1. If you can, it is better to find a Chinese male voice of an Asian male voice speak in this video.