Cool Things You've made in CAD

Snesfan

its requiem for a dream, dont know how to spell it though, its in alot of adverts and things like that, War was the other option of song for the vid but we went with that in the end

Offy

This is a design I did a few years ago. The CAD work is pretty basic but the concept is cool. The picture illustrate how a single Braille cell can be used to display a line of Braille of any length, to the best of my knowledge there is nothing like this on the market at the moment. Present Braille displays cost thousands and most blind people cannot afford them as most blind people are unemployed.
IBM tried to design something similar years before but they tried a different approach that didnt work.

IBM had an interesting idea. They took a Braille module, one six-dot Braille display and said, well, if you have one of those, why not put it on a slider, and, as you slide it, it moves the display as if you had a long line of eighty characters. That really did seem like a good idea, but again it didn't pan out. The problem is that your finger isn't moving across the Braille; your finger is sitting on a display of six dots; and, as you move the slider and hit a certain point, it switches to the next character, and your finger feels the next character. We all know now that Braille isn't read that way. Braille is read by brushing your finger across the pins or across the surface of the Braille page. The brushing is much more useful to the sense of touch. So, while the idea IBM had was good, it also didn't work well.

“Refreshable Braille Now and in the Years Ahead”. http://www.nfb.org/Images/nfb/Publications/bm/bm00/bm0001/bm000110.htm on 26/10/2005

This design allows for a cheap braille display that could be put on the market for less than €1k and that would give a good percentage of profit to the manufacturer.

It is estimated that the production cost per dot, with the new technologies, is below €2. A Full page (128x64) is looking as though it will cost below €20,000 (Compare this to ~€ 10,000 Euro for an 80-character-Display with only 640 dots), giving much more comfort in handling and presenting much more information to the user than a single Braille-line ever could do.

Taken from http://www.smarttec.co.uk/itacti/deliverables1.htm - Full report.

Silenceisbliss

Hey all,

My team and I just won the annual CAD competition in college earlier. thought id put up a few pics, very proud of her (the caterham 7 that is) alot of manhours, alot of lost sleep, stress, and LOTS of loss of sanity went into making this.

just to mention aswell, the competition was insane. there were some other amazing projects on display, maybe some might get posted here....











plenty more images where they came from, thats kinda just an overview. all mechanisms work by the way.

thanks christ it's finished...

Silenceisbliss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu5cMf-EJ7g

eddie.g

Here is a model i did on solid works





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memaul

very impressive drawings.

i'm an engineering student and i'm just wondering what is the best for drawing in 3d. i'm pretty handy at cad in 2d.

is solid works easier than wildfire or what are the other options