Week 0

Choosing a Product

Over the Christmas holiday we had been tasked to find an electronic or mechanical product and replicate its internals in Solidworks.  For my product I chose an electric Tacklife Screwdriver.

Disassembling the Donor Product

Opening up the case proved to be a challenge as one of the screws was hidden beneath a sticker, which I didn’t realise until I forced the case open, so I purchased another screwdriver, and opened it carefully, as to no damage the internals.

Cadding the Internals

In order to accurately replicate the screwdriver’s internals, I used a pair of calipers to measure the various dimensions of each individual component.  Some parts proved harder to get accurate measurements of as they were at difficult angles or where hard to get to with calipers.

When creating the internals in Solidworks, it appeared that creating the cylindrical shapes, such as the motor and gearbox, would just be a large amount extruded circles, however alongside this there were a lot of small details which I also included, as I wanted to make the CAD model as accurate a possible.  One of these small details being how the metal casing for the motor folds round the plastic end of the motor.