Don't Panic Update

Just some finished images

Don't Panic

The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy advises us 'Don't Panic'. This a room designed to aid this state of mind. This is a roughly 4m by 5m panic room. It designed to house 6 people for up to 3 days in relative comfort or 8 people a week in an unpleasant hell. The design is not mine some of thew smaller detailed parts are off grab cad as I have deadlines to meet. But anyway have shufti.

It's almost finished. But just thought I'd share.

Images of past projects.

Here are two pages from my current portfolio showcasing some of my Solidworks skills.

This was my first ever Solidworks project done mostly over a single weekend in a frenzy. I got an A for it so all's well that end's well.

Meet Twoo was a funny little Solidworks project to make as I hadn't really practiced with Solidworks enough and my surface modelling skills where employed for the first time to add the beak and wings (the grey oval on the side.) which was not as flat as you might think.

Third image from office project.

Office

Here's a second update on the office I'm making.

Office Visualisation

I was tasked by my company to produce a 3d visualization of an ongoing project. 

Here's the initial layout stage 1

Quick Update

So a quick update. I'm being asked to solid model a control room designed by my company as part of a project. As such that's going to take up most my time so you might not see anything on here for a little while.I'll try and update with pictures of my current project.

So here are some pictures of my car and motorbike for the mean time

Dalek's are easy

I was busy this morning so I spent the afternoon creating a Dalek head. The body will follow at some point but that's going to be an interesting build. The build on the head isn't finished I'm going to look at my own Dalek mask when I get home this evening for more reference. Below are the edited reference images I'm using. The come from the Doctor Who technical manual.

Bam! Portal Gun

So today I made myself a Portal gun model.

I thought it would take me a couple of days to do but took maybe 5 hours maximum. It's actually pretty simple to make easily the hardest parts are the prongs on the front. The rear and front shell's are revolves that I then split apart and shelled the remaining pieces are revolves or extrusions. I used the circular pattern tool a lot to keep all the pieces in the same orientation.

Below are the blueprints I used originally sourced from http://www.indymogul.com/post/21883/portal-gun-stuff

I'll be uploading the files to GrabCad soon.

Solidworks Tutorials.

Apart from my basic understanding that I got from my first project which I'll post here some time I learnt it from these tutorials ranked in order of usefulness.

Lamborghini Gallardo by far the best tutorial I have come across. While the tutorial doesn't explain how the tool you use work it describes literally every step, every mouse click, every button. It was perfect as I had never really explored surface modelling.  It's long enough to keep you busy and by the end you'll have a real grasp of the software.

It's currently on sale at the retailer http://www.solidworksgallardo.com/download-tutorial.php for $67 well worth it.

This was the solid works chopper. It's nearly all Solid Modelling the only part which is surface modelling is the seat. It was a good tutorial as it really made me understand the value of using patterns to achieve the end goal quicker. That being said it was not worth the money I paid for it. If you are going to spend some money do it on the Gallardo or others by the same author.

These two model's where quick and simple I got both of them off the same sight as the Chopper model and both where free. Great introduction to surface modelling. The site for all these is http://learnsolidworks.com/
It's great for beginners and those with some experience.