Samichael Ghost Clip

About this project: 

Coming in all different colors, this 6x13x0.15cm ghost clip is a multifunctional and easily accessible addition to your office supplies, whether your sorting papers or hanging supplies, this clip is there to help. This is a quick print and can be personalized by engraving your initials onto your model, I worked with Michael Agnew on this project, who's report can be found here @Michael_1917086.

Our objective: 

 With a partner, you will recreate your ghost clip using Solidworks.  You and your partner MUST have identical files that you create by collaborating on each step, one at a time.

Design choices and steps

Top spikes

Once we created our constraint box, our plan was to create a construction line 0.8 cm down from the top of the constraint box, and on top of that make six identical spikes, each one centimeter away from each other. But after we could not get them to be perfect, we realized that it would be easiest to start with three spikes on the left side, use the smart dimension tool to make them equal, and then mirror them to the right side of the figure, which worked perfectly. We also originally had our spikes as .75 cm but we changed them to 1cm.

Bottom arcs

Our bottom arcs were somewhat simple and we didn't change much from our instructions, the photos to the left show our progress throughout one day of work, once we finalized our project we did not need to change anything about them. To start this, make 3 equal 2 cm construction line segments that are 1cm up from the bottom of the constraint box (Box 1, Box 2, Box 3, left to right), then use the 3-point arc tool to create your arcs. Start it from the left corner of box one and drag it to the right corner of box one. Then drag the 3rd point to construction line 1B and wait for it to click in, and lastly, repeat this for box 2 and 3.

Body of the figure

We created a line from the leftmost point of the bottom head spike that connects to the top left corner of the arc in box 1, then did the same for the right most point of the bottom headspike to the top right corner of the arc in box 3. 

Eyes

To start this we created a center point circle on the top left corner of the figure Use smart dimension to set the diameter of the circle to 1.2 cm, then set the space between the top of the constraint box to the centerpoint of the circle to 2.8, then set the distance between the left of the constraint box to the center point to 1.7 cm. After we set one eye correctly, it was time to mirror the circle about the vertical construction line in the constraint box, this allowed us to ensure that the two eyes were the exact same. 

Mouth of the figure

To do the body of our figure, which we didn't have much trouble with and did not differ from out instructions, create a vertical line that is 4 cm tall and 1.2 cm away from the left of the constraint box. Use a smart dimension to place the line 2.3 cm down from the centerpoint of the left eye, now, using the mirror tool, select the line and set the inflection point for it to be across the center vertical construction line. Now that we have two lines, we use the three point arc tool to create our bottom arc, select the bottom points of both lines and wait til the point clicks to the vertical construction lines (you may need to move your cursor across the line a few times before it works), once that is done make the radius of the arc 1.8 cm. Now in order to get the shape that we want, use the offset tool and select both the lines and the arc, make the offset set to invert, select cap ends, and make it .60 cm inwards.