Solidworks ^_^

Right, now this is more like it.

To start off with, i dispised Solidworks, managed to somehow crash the programme completely (loosing my work each time) 9 times within about 2 hours, not kool.
Caused me to go upto the Attic studio and sit and draw away from the stresses of it, only to have Warren (lecturer) come up to look at my work and tell me its perfect for it!
Argh i couldda punched him..
Here it is anyways:



I really wasn't "getting" the programme atall. Due to me being ill, and lecturer being ill (found out from his fb that he took a sick day and went snowboarding, lol) , i didn't really get the help i needed at uni for putting it together before i went home.
The hand-in for the module was after christmas, luckily.

One of my mates at hom, Grant, is pretty handy on it (thank God) and gave me a hand over the holidays, i learnt more from that than from the first semester at uni. Strangely enough.

Managed to get my model together though, yeay!


The hardest thing with this is probably the fact that you have to measure and define EVERYTHING, and if the measurements arn't right, then it wont let you mate them together (when you assemble the seperate parts together to make the final model).

Also played about with Studio Maxx aswell, and made it look perdy..

When i came back up here after Christmas, (a week early) i spent the week making the model, the final physical one was made using the CNC machine and a template which i exported from Solidworks.
The model was made out of Clear acrylic, and also MDF, and both are on display in the building ^_^

I do have a photo somewhere, will add it in at a later date.

Think thats about it for Semester one, Solidworks.

Kaledo..

Was having problems with the other post, so decided i would create a seperate one for Kaledo, and another again for Solidworks etc.

Basically, as i said before, im not a Huge fan of Kaledo, but i think im kind of getting to grips with it now..
Anywho Kaledo is basically for coming up with designs, and repeats tobe printed onto fabric, which is pretty cool i guess.
Heres are some images i came up with, this first one is abstracted from a sculpture of a rabbit, standing ontop of an anvyle.

This started off as my purse that i scanned in.. (Its a pretty purse!)


One of the things Lisa (lecturer for Kaledo) said she found interesting within this module is colour, as she said how she finds that Students are automatically drawn to certain colours, and seeing which ones we were "drawn" to.

Myself, i usually go for greens, or reds.

Heres the purse one after some more playing about and a differnt set of colours.

Heres the same image as above, with a bit of tweaking on Photoshop, i like it. ^_^


Anyways, thats about all ive done on Kaledo upto now, more to come no doubt.

Here goes nothing...!

Riiiight ive got a lot of catching up to do with this.
Its about half way through the 2nd semester at the moment.
Im currently in York studying Design Practice BA(hons).

Well, in the first semester, they basically threw all that they had at us. Not literally, but you get my drift. There was a lot to learn and it did seem a little overwhelming to all extent if im being honest.

Visual Research Methodolgies and Navigating ICT were the main two modules.
Containing both 2D and 3D design elements.
For the Visual Research, we were given the Yorkshire Sculpture Park as our source for Inspiration and abstraction. I wasn't really "inspired" by the sculptures themselves, more their surroundings.
We found a nice little spot under the trees by a lake there, were some lovely little ducks there aswell ^_^

Anywho, back to the course.
We mainly use two CAD programmes; Kaledo, and Solidworks.

Kaledo is more of a 2D programme, i found it had similarities to Photoshop, but more complicated in the way that you put everything together.
Personally, i hate it. But then again im more of a 3D than 2D girl myself.

I struggled to get to grips with it at first, but think i kinda got the hang of it towards the end.
Used it in conjunction with Photoshop to speed things along a bit seeing as i was more familiar with the programme.