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Starting this one out by realizing I got a lot less work done this week- I found myself rushing a lot last time, so I took extra time to work through what I have completed so far. Because of the demos + questions that were answered in class, I was able to figure these out a lot easier; let's take a look!
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This week, I tackled part of the project I was not looking forward to - the threaded plastic piece that holds a lot of the object together, including the pen grip, case, metal cover/tip, etc. This one scared me a bit because not only is it different widths at different parts, the entire thing also has a sort of threaded texture/spiral throughout.
The way that I went about this was breaking it up into pieces- the top, middle, and bottom. This made it easier to focus on one part at a time without getting overwhelmed by the entire thing. I started with the top piece with smaller threads:
It was fairly easy, just making a tube and then adding threads using the Spiral function. I then decided to tackle the middle section of the piece:
This one was more of a challenge. There was probably a much easier way to do it, but I did it by drawing out the shape of the object, used the array tool + number of arcs to add the bumps (
36, counted them myself! That was a bad reference to make but there's literally 36 of them so I had to). After that I revolved the entire thing, and even if it took forever it did work! So I guess my method was fine. I also added a small chamfer to the edges of the bottom ring, even if you can't really see it I still can and if I don't it'll keep me up at night. All that was left for the piece after that was the bottom piece and the larger ring separating it from the middle:
It was basically the same process as the same piece.
As for what I'm working on right now, inside the shell of the pen is a little plastic piece that holds the pen tip to the bottom, essentially being what makes the entire pen work. Here's hoping I don't lose it because if I do I don't get to use my cool pen anymore!
Most of it is finished, it just needs the little plastic wedges which I've drawn the outline for to hopefully finish tomorrow; I figured I'd give leave it for tonight because I almost forgot to finish my surface design post! So look for that in about... 20 minutes?
Thanks for reading, can't wait to check out everyone's work tomorrow! :)
- Forrest
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