Reverse Engineering: Hobby Electronic Part 03

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BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME
said no one









In the final chapter of this project I built the last 7 pieces of my object in rhino. 1,5,6,10,11,13 &14


5,11,12,13

5, 11 & 12 were very simple and mostly involved using sweep1. 13 was some simple surface designing. 

1,6,10

Piece 10 mostly consisted of surface design. 


Piece 1, the plug, required a more creative approach. The plug had these alternating negative shapes going up the shaft that were like little corners that were cut away, accept the tip of each corner was cut off to make the space for where the wiring goes.    


In order to achieve this patterning I lined up square chips in the pattern that they appeared on the plug, then boolean differenced the cord itself and used what remained to boolean difference the plug in order to recreate this pattern.


After completing all parts of the object I was able to put the pieces together.





To render I used keyshot. I ran into an issue where the foam piece of the headphone (9) was not a polysurface but a mesh. I don't know how that happened but I had to go back to the working file and remake it so I could export it for keyshot since mesh was not supported.


Keyshot was very impressive for the task, I just wish I understood the program better so I could be more efficient and present my work in the best form.








So happy I was able to complete this project all the way including the aux accessory. Overall I enjoyed working in cad. With my small toolbox I was able to solve each problem presented to me. I'm excited to become more comfortable with the program and expand to other programs such as Blender. I would also like to gain some proficiency with keyshot for the next project.    




Introduction : Reverse Engineered Object Selection
Part 1 : Hobby Electronic 2/14
Part 2 : Hobby Electronic 7/14








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