The SolidWorks saga; Motorboat

Of the past three weeks, week 3 has been the least constructive. Although during the first two weeks I solidly worked on my SolidWorks assignment so I am still on track. Since this is the case I decided to add some extra details to my Lego accessory (The boat). Whats a boat without a motor? A row boat. Whats a boat with a motor? A motor boat. The motor did not take a long time to make as it is only two parts; a propeller and the motor itself. The motor was solid worked into existence by extruding a side profile of a boat motor, cut extruding the front profile, and then rounding the edges at various radii, radii. The propeller was easy; it is just an extruded circle (a cylinder) with a boundary extrude (a boundary extrude uses two sketch profiles to make a solid feature), and lastly filleting the features where necessary. I attached the boat motor to the boat by making a 'H' shaped extrude from a rear face on the boat motor, and then made an extruded cut in the same 'H' shape into the rear face of the boat.

I also found out that my Lego man was an older version with different internal features from the new Lego men. This was OK- I just had to remake the insides of the Lego man chest from my old one to the new one. I noticed that the old one is much simpler and works just as well as the new one which looks overly and pointlessly complicated. 'How much more complication have they jammed in to the Lego man's chest cavity?' I hear you ask. Well, its not twice as complicated but thrice as complicated. So in summary, we as a society should use the word 'thrice' more often. Or maybe it can be a new aged hipster word...

Hipster Bob: "That 2nd year Product Innovation teacher is thrice as cool as any high school teachers I had"

Non-hipster Pete: "Do you mean high-school teachers or school teachers that were high?"

Hipster Bob: "What?"

So far I would say this assignment has been fairly easy and not taken a lot of time considering how long we have had to do it. I compensated for it's easiness by making a more time consuming accessory.

Fin. Hardcore.