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:
![](../assets/img/progress/week-1/crude_sketch.jpg)
After such a great drawing, I decided to start CADing immediately
![](../assets/img/progress/week-1/sketch-plate.png)
I then extruded the sketch to make the full part
![](../assets/img/progress/week-1/dash_mount.png)
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
![](../assets/img/progress/week-1/Main_Case.png)
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
![](../assets/img/progress/week-1/screem.png)
Speedometer
![](../assets/img/progress/week-1/Speedometer.png)
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
![](../assets/img/progress/week-1/hud_cad.png)
![](../assets/img/progress/week-1/hud_cad_2.png)