2D T-Rex with colored background

Lesson Plan and Activity:

With a partner, you will design a “2D” placard using Solidworks.  You and your partner will have the same design which meets the constraints below, and you will EACH use Solidworks to create your design.

Lesson Plan and Activity: With a partner, you will design a “2D” placard using Solidworks. You and your partner will have the same design which meets the constraints below, and you will EACH use Solidworks to create your design.

Assembly/Construction Instructions Section: Take the outline of the T-Rex, and place it onto the colored background circle until it pops into place.

Design Choices: 

This is the image that my group decided to base our design for our 2d art on.

When starting to trace the dinosaur, using the spline tool seemed to be more of a problem than a solution, as you could not offset splines. 

To resolve this issue, me and my partner traced the dinosaur using lines and arcs, and it came out just as well.

 And when tracing the dinosaur and then offesting, there was a probem where some parts of the dinosaur were not connected, so it would not all offset together and therefore would print incorrectly. To solve this additional problem, we did not offset the dinosaur and instead added the background piece so that the dinosaur outline had something to lay on.

Another design choice that was made was connecting the teeth to the dinosaur, instead of making them tiny pieces to connect. The foliage at the bottom of the circle originally had a different design and holes to show the overhang, but taking those holes out of the sketch and adding more tree leaves made for a better design.  

We then sketched a circle at the back of the sketch and extruded it out, as a separate piece

This is our final tracing before printing.