Week 3: Computer-Aided Modeling

The course lecture covered a large array of both open source and commercial CAM packages; however, without further instruction on which programs were preferable for specific types of design, choosing one was puzzling.

The majoirty of this week was spent watching online tutorials for a number of different programs, hoping to find one that would allow me to create the object I needed for this weeks' assignment.

Eventually, I settled on Google SketchUp, based simply on the general familiarity of the program within our class.

At this point, time was short, so I grabbed an existing object from Google's 3D warehouse and modified it:  often, editing an existing object is easier than creating from scratch, and the exercise still required learning basic concepts, terminology, functions, and ephemera of computer-aided 3D modeling.

The model incorporates a modified acrylic bottom to a toy piano, and includes a 3/16" inset for placement of the circuit board.

• 1 Final Project Proposal
• 2 Collaborative Development
• 3 Computer-Aided Modeling
• 4 Computer-Controlled Cutting
• 5 Electronics Production
• 6 Make Something Big
• 7 Electronics Design
• 8 Molding, Casting, & Composites
• 9 Embedded Programming
• 10 3D Scanning & Printing
• 11 Input Devices
• 12 Interface & Application Programming
• 13 Output Devices
• 14 Mechanical Design
• 15 Networking
• 16 Machine Design
• 17 Final Project Planning
• 18 Final Project Development
• 19 Final Project