This month’s Tuesday Tutorial project is a fun Halloween-themed classroom project that teaches advanced 3D modeling techniques. This project is a bit lengthy, so we’ll be showing it in three parts.
In Part One, we walk through all the steps for creating the necessary surfaces, combining those surfaces to form a solid, mirroring a solid body, creating a circular pattern of the result, and finally tweaking the pumpkin design.
Stay tuned to next Tuesday where we will continue designing a fully 3D printable pumpkin. This will include cutting the top, creating a stem, and editing the appearance in SolidWorks. We’ll also include our final SolidWorks design files so that you can download and tweak to your liking.
What you’ll need:
- SolidWorks Education Edition
- 3D printer if you want to print your final design (we’re using a Stratasys Dimension SST768)
Estimated project time: 2.5 hours total
- 1 hour for Part One (Design)
- 1 hour for Part Two (Assembly)
- 30 minutes for Part Three (Rendering)
- + the optional time needed to print your pumpkin
