Use what you have learned from the sketch models to decide (as a team) which of your concepts will now be detailed. You may proceed with more that one item, but your team's scope should be restricted to ideas that you expect to carry through to final prototypes.
Now, the goal is to proceed with detailed design. The result will be a much more complete definition of both form and operation, from which you will build your final prototype. You will also obtain practice in digital rendering techniques and solid modeling.
All work should be coordinated with your team to move the project forward,
but your design work will be graded
individually.
To start Your team will need to submit a complete exploded assembly drawing(s) and use instructions with this assignment. You will also need to indicate what aspect of the system your individual work is developing. Team members make work on detailed variations of the same concept, or team members may work on different aspects of a single, larger concept. |
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Design
Develop detailed design variations using sketching, solid modeling, and
engineering analysis techniques as appropriate. Be sure to refine both the
form/interface and the operation of the concept. You may also need to make
additional sketch models and perform tests during this process. Be sure
to keep the client requirements
in mind. While designing, be careful not to overlook issues such as
user instructions/ease of use, maintenance, wear/reliability.
Once you have finalized your detail design work, prepare a complete solid
model of the part(s) you have worked on and the their sub-assembly.
Additionally, use a two-point perspective sketch as the basis
for a photo realistic photoshop rendering of your refined form.
The solid models of your parts should also be used by the team to create an overall assembly for the complete 'system design'.
Solidworks is available for download (certificates required), but the license requires that you are on-line with an MIT 18. IP address. There are also some simple solidworks tutorials available. Solidworks also comes with a number of good tutorials.
Unfortunately, photoshop is not available for download. If you do not have a copy, it is available in the new media center and also on the computers in the 2.744 lab space (35-307). You may also register with Adobe for a 30 day trial version of photoshop CS2.
Prepare your submission
Prepare images of your photoshop rendering and solid models in a web page
or series of web pages. Be sure to include detailed explanations or instructions
so that the work can be understood. Also, please make it clear what aspect
of the overall concept you are addressing (you may want to link to the team's
system assembly submission).
Your team must also prepare an overall system/concept web-page that includes a complete, system assembly and what the system will look like. It should include an explanation of the overall design's operation and a description of how the user is expected to interact with/experience the device. Details of sub-system operation should be explained in the individual work pages.
Please see the submission instructions for additional details.
