The biggest design challenge ahead for prototyping Project Danzig is the piece I’ve dubbed the “crankcase.” It isn’t the busiest pivot location I’ve seen, but I still want this piece to be as clean and simple as possible.
To that end I keep refining this section, and probably always will. This most recent iteration is an attempt to make things even simpler and lighter. When it comes to Solidworks, I’m ten levels below “amateur,” but I’m constantly blown away by how quickly Solidworks lets you create. Here’s the quick 2D redraw of the crankcase.
And just exiting the drawing recreates the extruded 3D piece.
It’s pretty incredible, how quickly revisions can be made to pieces. The question is how streamlined can this piece possibly become. That’s what I’m working on this week.
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