basically for my one Pro-engineering class i was assigned the lamest 3d modeling project ever, making a collapsable chair for a sporting event or a fisherman etc. it needs to incorporate 3 things including springs, bearings, and gears
my chairs already drawn and designed i just dont know where to include gears
any ideas?
hmm well shavo lets see how about where the back portion meets the seat? like on old school beach chairs
^^ i was thinking that but i already put like a storage ares thing like a little pocket for stuff
maybe like a side table that comes out but it wouldnt be collapsable then
Maybe use a gear bearing spring system to have a self centering, rotating chair.
For real. Old school ones had gears that ratcheted for adjusting the back portion. Do that for both the back and the foot section. People love adjustability.
http://img254.echo.cx/img254/2954/lawnchairr7ce.jpg
notice the gears.
pat thats what i was trying to find lol
rotation wont let it be collapsable if it has to close but that would be cool,
psychopjv i had this exact idea! but im not sure if he’ll accept it as one gear just being racheted, he might say its too easy and he might want gears working together
some kind of cranking footrest using gears?
Turn a crank handle to raise up a footrest? It’d be cheezy but it would add some gears to the project.
gear pillow
That will work for that project. I’m pretty sure that you don’t have to have a system of gears. If you have DiCorso, he is really lenient on what goes through. I loved him as a teacher. Smart guy and definitely someone you could have a beer with.
When I took that class, I had to design something that spread fertilizer as you mowed. I used the rotation of the wheels to turn a spreader that was fed from a reservoir which mounted on the handle of a push mower. Worked out well. That’s the day I spent 20 hours STRAIGHT in the lab working on it and got a 92 on the project.
I did my Pro-E project in autocad 2004 3D… HUGE cheat.
yes. You’re going to school for engineering and being pushed to be creative and to test what you know about 3d modeling. These are the things you should be doing YOURSELF…as an aspiring engineer.
collaberation is great…but something simple like that should be brainstormed by yourself or by other aspiring engineers who can look at your current design and incorporate the simplest idea with minimal change to your current design. Not as simple of a questions as… “how do i incorporate gears into my design (which we can’t see)”
Think of common tri-folding lawn chairs for sun tanning…those have gears.
you should create a “lets play a game” chair and sell the design to the makers of saw VI