Week 1: 3D Design

  • Date: September 7th 2022 - September 13th 2022

Week 1: Designing my Final Project

For my Final Project I have decided to make a new dashboard for my Car.

Motivation

When I'm driving my car, its really annoying to change music. My car is old so it uses an Aux. I have to put my password in and basically distract myself to play music.

Design Requirements:

1. I would like it to fit other future vehicles that I make/buy
2. Should be resistant to noise and reliable
3. Should be easy to interact with
4. I want to have a joystick/mouse that looks like it came from a microsoft product

The Process So far

Dashboard Case/Cover

The Main Body

This part will define how my dashboard looks, which in turn will determine how I interact with it.

To Design it I first start with a crude sketch:

After such a great drawing, I decided to start CADing immediately

I then extruded the sketch to make the full part

On-board Computer Case

CADing the On-board computer

My goal with having the on-board computer is to be able to interface it with smaller analog/ digital devices that I create. Such as a proximity sensor for when I want to make clean cuts.

Since this will most likely change in the future I designed the main case with as little of the functionality as possible

The Main two things I wanted was a duct for a fan to cool the onboard computer down and also to hold it in place

The Screen and Speedometer

the Screen

After CADing all the other stuff this was pretty straight forward. Make a square and fillet and chamfer until it looks like a screen

Speedometer

Putting it Together

the Assembly

This was the annoying part, I wanted to make the assembly in a way, such that when I edited a component sketch it will auto update to the assembly

However whenever I updated a part I would get an error in the assembly mates

After a short learning curve I learned not to reference faces or features when mating. The proper way is to reference sketches