Harry Potter Door Stopper

Summary

This harry potter door stopper is a fun object to add to your room while also fixing the problem of a door that doesn’t stay open. 

Objective:

Make a succesful design using solidworks tools while exploring design considerations and using creative freedom to enhance the aesthetic of the model.

Design Choices 

Change #1

At the very beginning of this project, I had placed Harry Potter in the top of the design and had a simple slant that met the end of the door stopper. Although taking in mind that Harry Potter used to live under the stairs, an idea had occurred where the placement of Harry Potter would be switched. To do this, I extruded the front face of the square and copied and pasted the already made Harry Potter into it. When choosing the face it was helpful to select the back of the extruded box and place his legs as close to the bottom as possible. Because Harry Potter is not underneath the top of the design, the idea would only come to life if the slant were changed into stairs. For this, I got rid of the slant inside the sketch and added the stairs. 

Before:

After:

Change #2

After the choice was made to place Harry under the stairs, it was important that the sketch identifying his features was amplified so that it could come through in the printing. To make sure that his features would be visible some features such as the glasses, the tie and the badge were offsetted bidirectionally and extruded out. The rest of the features such as: the hair, the eyebrows, the scar, the scarf, the hand features and the legs were done in a different way. These features were also all offsetted, (except for legs as they were already squares) although instead of being boss extruded, they were extruded cut using the thin feature. Most of the features used these dimensions: 

Although the same dimensions didn’t work for all features due to some being arcs and them resulting in zero thickness geometry. Therefore the numbers were tweaked here and there to make sure the features were able to get their extruded cut. 

Change #3

However changing the numbers wasn’t enough for some of the arcs; therfore, I decided to get rid of the arc in its sketch and make a new one which consisted of two arcs made instead of offsets. By doing this I was able to extrude a thicker feature which resulted in a successful extruded cut to represent the feature in printing.

Complete picture of design: