Finale

I thought it would be interesting to make the interior visible, so I slightly changed the structure of my mouse and decided to make the middle section to be transparent.

here are the renderings i have done.  I use bright yellow as the main color and clear for the middle section. I also put a logo on the side.

Although I didn't intend to design something like transformer, but now I 'm looking it, it reminds me of Bumblebee haha.. so I.m gonna name it "transparency" as the title of my presentation board, for the transparent see-through feature.

and I uploaded my model of each part to Ponoko to get a quotation. The price is about US$69 in total. Not sure if there is the normal price but it's more expensive than I thought.

I set the duration as 15 seconds but I don't know why the the first animation came out to be just 10 seconds, it might because of the FPS.  While I was waiting for the second one, I'll just upload this first

loft the surface

loft the top, middle and bottom surfaces

trace

I took photo for each side of the mouse i made

 bottom view

 rear view

 side view

 top view

 and then I put them into solidworks to trace the outline

assignment3 sketch & soft model

While I was thinking about how should I redesign the mouse, I saw a picture of a cartoon duck, the webbed feet of it just gave me the idea. A little bit weird though, I think it is very funny to design a mouse like that. 

so I did a quick sketch on the paper. i tried to keep it organic and ergonomic as well.

 the I went to the workshop and used clay as the material to create a soft model

                     Holding the mouse to test and improve the ergonomic feature by my own hands

Done

Finally the modelling of logitech mouse has been completed!


I tried my best to make the pcb board as detailed as I can. I draw all the components in one part file in order to save time. I used 3Dsketch and then sweep to generate the coil.I even put a decal on it so that it would look more realistic

Nano Receiver:

 on/off switch

Exploded View

internal structure

Back View

I chose rubber as the material of the grip, but the texture turned to be rougher than I thought.

Hero View:

week10

 The modelling of the exterior surface has been taking up a lot of  time but it has been worth it. I think I might lag behind others but by all means I am trying to catch up and complete this on time.

The bottom of the middle section seems not that accurate since it is not supposed to lean inwards. I think the problem must be on the section spline since the surface was loft through it. but it didn't work as I wanted even after I adjusted the spline. Gonna need to check other process and make it more realistic.

The hand grip seems pretty much like the real one though.

I feel so lucky that the "thicken" actually works and the battery doors comes to be pretty good.

week 9

I had some problems when trimming spline of the "tallest point" using construction lines. it just tend to trim the whole half spline which is not what I want. so I redraw the construction line using "3d sketch" instead and it worked. this time the spline was trimmed successfully.

Another problem is that when I tried to do the boundary surface, I didn't know why there was always a "hole" and  they just cannot connect perfectly, then I found that's because I selected the surface edge instead of the spline as the "direction 1".

 

It become okay when I changed to select the splines as the direction 1 . 

 Zebra stripes. It seems fine for now

week 8

I have to say that it took me a lot of time to adjust each spline and align them in the correct position. the projected spline would have problems such as not able to be a closure if the original splines are not aligned . In order to do that, I sketched many center lines to help me to identify the position. kinda messy but they do help a lot.

one problem encountered is that surface I wanted to create always got one quarter missed. then I found out then I just need to click the "close the loft" and the problem solved.

Just started the surface modeling by following the videos step by step. This is a really challenge to me.

Inserted the pictures into solidworks and adjusted the size

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Tracing the outline from the side view

When I attempted to project the bottom curve, I cannot manage to make it into a closure. I had tried a few times but it just didn't work out as the way it should be.Then I realized that I made a stupid mistake-- I put the bottom picture upside down so that it didn't match with the split line!! So i had to go back to rotate 180 degree of the bottom picture and sketch.

now that's right