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I made a MacBook Pro for my final
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looks cool but is it sporting an i5 chip in it? 
Something tells me this MBP has no internals in it.
Something tells me this MBP has no internals in it.
looks cool but is it sporting an i5 chip in it?
yes, i want to see the assembly view!
that's an isometric view..
in a perspective view, if you take two objects of the exact same size and put one further back than the other, the close one will appear bigger.. (the screen should look smaller than the front of the laptop even though they're the same width etc..)
with isometric, the objects will always appear the same size & angles will remain true to their measurement instead of what our eyes want to see.. it has it's uses but this model should be presented in a perspective view..
[example -- the lines of a straight road will converge when looking from a normal perspective... something like /\ ... in iso, they'll stay parallel || ]
I'm impressed. Did you actually do all that in 8 hours? If so, sounds like you have Solidwords down.
Your work is really impressive, and i hope you get an A grade for your effort.
Sorry about rendering a few of the pictures in Isometric View. I am new to the photorendering in Solidworks since we were never taught to do so, I corrected it in the last few pictures though. Lesson learned.
Personally I don't like using solidworks. Sure, it's great for making mock-ups, but in the end, you convert it to a 2d drawing for machinists and assembly crew. At least that's what we would do at my work if we didn't do everything in AutoCAD and then make 3D as required by contracts.
By the way, AutoCAD works great under Parallels, absolutely fantastic. My IT is actually really into Apple machines, and 90% of the installed computers at my work are Apple machines running Parallels for compatibility. Kinda interesting actually.
By the way, AutoCAD works great under Parallels, absolutely fantastic. My IT is actually really into Apple machines, and 90% of the installed computers at my work are Apple machines running Parallels for compatibility. Kinda interesting actually.
Yeah Autocad is very useful in ways that solidworks isn't but solidworks is totally necessary in that you can create a part and with a rapid prototype machine have it in your hand that day, it would cost SO much more to have a die created just for an injection mold of prototype parts. In the end autoCAD will make you the end result. But from A to B autoCAD can't get you the inbetween like solidworks does. I'm sure Apple makes the cases for their computers with solidworks for very early prototypes
pretty much off topic but..
just in case some of you all aren't aware of mac rhino...
http://community.irhino3d.com/
it's in beta right now and it's free.. it's incredibly stable for a beta and most of the tools have already been implemented (plugins don't work yet though cross-platform python scripts are about to be going).. apply at the link above.
just in case some of you all aren't aware of mac rhino...
http://community.irhino3d.com/
it's in beta right now and it's free.. it's incredibly stable for a beta and most of the tools have already been implemented (plugins don't work yet though cross-platform python scripts are about to be going).. apply at the link above.
I suppose that's true, but don't tend to use rapid prototyping machines at my work, we tend to trust our machine shop, and with our checks and balances we rarely end up with bad parts or designs anyway.