Within my third year of college we had a major assignment to create a real life complex product in solidworks. The product I decided to design was a kitchen mixer for the brand "Kitchenaid."
Front View
Side View
Top View
Before I started the modeling process within solidworks I drew 3 quick sketches of how I would generally want the front, side, and top view of the kitchen mixer to look like. I decided to do this as it would act as a guide when modeling. Where I inserted these scanned images into the application on the corresponding sketch planes. Given that this was meant to be a guide, I was able to use this to make the general shape and I made some personal changes while modeling.
Closeup of rubber buttons with drafts
Perspective of the bowl rim and the difference of colour changes on the bowl
Closeup of the wisk screw detailing
Closeup of the curved battery lid with the 4 fastening screws.
Pocket for the buttons as the inner surface has a curved draft detailing.
In these images shows some of the small detailings that were incorporated within the design. The idea was to not just design a real life product but to also make it user friendly. As I wanted to add multiple features that would be recognizable for an easy human interaction.
Here are the final renders in situ
Description of the assignment
For the final project within Computer-Aided Design Studio Class the students were assigned to create a complex model of their choice within the software Solidworks. This assignment lasted the whole semester, whereas every other week there was a given checkpoint to fulfill. The project consists of many specific different requirements for the students to achieve within each checkpoint. These checkpoints consists of; a minimum of four sweeps with guide curves, four lofts with guide curves, two surfaces of a component to have parting line draft, an assembly file with a minimum of 8 components, use the split-part method, four fastening details, a final render, and finally an APA report of the given assignment. The reason for the final project is to help the students become more comfortable and aware with the CAD software when creating future complex projects as an industrial designer without having struggles. To achieve this goal the students must spend time within each week on this assignment going through the Solidworks program to understand for themselves how each function works, what does not work and learn from trial and error. While creating a model is a long process which allows for the students to take their time and understand the functions throughout this process.
