GhostClip

The GhostClip is very useful. It can be used as a clip or a bookmark, the possibilities are endless. Get your GhostClip today! It also has my initials on it. It is almost like a signature but not quite one. 

This was a collaboration project with the world's Leaden engineer. Me and Not Applicable Products.

It is a work of art. Everyone should have a GhostClip!

Constraints:

The sketch must have a constraint box. The sketch should be fully defined and detailed yet efficient. There must be zero error messages. The sketch must have efficient use of construction lines and reference geometry. There must be Mirroring, manual relations and an example of offset entities. Since we are the Leaden engineers, we were able to fulfill all the requirements.

The two GhostClips made by me and Aiden must be completely identical to each other.

Design Choices:

First we drew a 2x scale drawing of the ghost we were trying to model. We labeled all dimensions in a 1:1 scale though. After finishing our drawings we wrote steps we should follow, (see below), then we started modeling it in solidworks.

However, we realized there were a few problems:

                   This is our GhostClip before editing/  This is our GhostClip after editing

The first problem was we did not use the mirror or the offset tool in our GhostClip. We decided to remake and mirror the triangles on top:

We also offseted the bottom of the U of the mouth:

This is what our first draft of our GhostClip

                                        (our original model before re-dimensioning it)

Then we realized that our GhostClips were not identical, some dimensions were off. We spend a little while fixing those and making them identical.

 After finishing, we realized there were a few problems, so we remeasured the measurements of the ghost model, and changed a few dimensions in the drawing and in solidworks.

One thing we found is out mouth was too close together . We changed the dimension from 0.5cm from the mouth to the side of the ghost to 0.6cm. We also realized that our mouth was too thin, so we changed the width of the mouth from 0.25cm to 0.3cm.

We also realized that our eyes were in the wrong spot, so we remeasured those dimensions and changed them in our drawing and in our model.

                                                                  (The first draft)

                                                                   (The final draft)

Then we made it an .stl file and 3D printed it.

How it was made in Solidworks:

• Using a center rectangle with construction lines, make constraint box around the origin
• Construction line the inner box (excluding the triangles and circles)
• Make a relation for the two side being parallel and equal
• Construction line increments where the shapes(eyes and mouth) begin and end
• Add Anchor Points for half of Triangles
• Plot points for the semi-Circles
• Fill in half of Triangles using the line tool
• Smart dimension half of triangles
• Mirror half of triangles about midpoint of constraint box to complete set of 6
• Fill in the Semi-Circles using the Arc tool
• Smart dimension one semi-circle
• Make all the semi-circles equal with a manual relation
• Midpoint for eye circles
• Do the eye circles using the circle tool
• Smart dimension the diameter for one eye circle
• Make the two eye circles equal with a manual relation
• Make constraint box for the mouth
• Make width for mouth
• Find midpoint for the semi-circles of mouth
• Do the semi-circle mouth parts with the arc tool
• Make the sides of the mouth be equal and parallel with manual relations
• Make the eye circles and mouth tangent
• Make sure everything is fully defined