Week 3

This week I designed CAD model of my future product.

I used to work in Autodesk Autocad, Autodesk Fusion 360, Autodesk Tinkercad and Autodesk’s ecosystem is very powerful and complete, but I had the most experience in SolidWorks tools.

Eventually I’ve made a sketch in SolidWorks and build 3D model based on this sketch. After design finishing I saved it to STL file and uploaded the file to Sketchfab (see result below).

Sketch

Add some details, like radiuses and holes

Then extrude sketch

The model consists of two parts - the main body and the cover. I have reinforced the case with additional stiffening ribs and added holes for fixing the cover. All the resulting files are attached below:

Main body model Cover model

SolidWorks assembly for entire scene

3D Model

After I had finished creating the model, I decided to find a way to share the model online, and the SketchFab service was a very convenient way. Below should be the window with my model loaded right in the browser!