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| Rudolph did a great job on his big day. |
My partners and I presented our three "sketches" to the class, and subsequently decided that if we could figure out how to make gears on SolidWorks, we would like to pursue model #1.
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| Model #1 |
We headed over to a computer to find out, since we didn't want to spend time on other aspects of the model only to discover the gears wouldn't be possible to build. We proceeded to spend the rest of class battling SolidWorks. Our elongated gear trial and error with SolidWorks was actually very entertaining, and many of the gimpy, mutated 'gears' we produced sent us into small fits of laughter. We found what looked like a useful gear-making tutorial online, but just when we thought we might actually be successful, the tutorial--meant for a more recent version of SolidWorks--let us down. No matter what we did, we found we couldn't get any further along than the one-toothed gear we had managed to produce with the tutorial.
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| Our gear. We are hopeful it will start teething soon. |
Despite our lack of total gear-success, what we had accomplished convinced us that making a gear was indeed possible, we just needed to figure out exactly how to do it.
We left class hopeful that we would be able to solve the mystery of the SolidWorks gear in our next class meeting and give our gear the full set of teeth it needed and deserved.
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