Progress.

The idea was a simple, elegant mouse with flowing lines, inspired from hermit crab (middle and top housing being the shell and bottom the creature's body). Some says it looks like mango, or whale...

Basic tools in keyshot is quite easy to learn. But my OCD kicks in and I took 3 hours on ONE photo just to adjust the lighting so that I get a sleek reflection. My biggest problem: I cant stop until I'm satisfied. Yet to fix this problem. I experimented with different light environments for each photo, need to improve my photography knowledge to understand how camera and lights work. I changed the lens perspective to be more fish eye for the exploded view (to make everything look like they're jumping out) I made an animation of the battery cover, battery and usb come out from the mouse after an orbit scene and I realised that i should make the bottom of the mouse face upwards instead so that its not covered in shadow. But I was halfway through the rendering and there's no time to redo. At least I know next time I can do better. Conclusion for mouse project: Photo rendering and animation are the best parts. I still hate solidworks when things doesn't ...

1. Middle housing: When I was doing this rib I had problem using cut with surface tool. I created boss extrude and wanted to cut the curve but it failed so I change the boss extrude to surface extrude but it failed as well. So I extrude cut from the middle plane instead and it worked. The middle housing is the first part I did. I was too OCD about putting all features from real mouse onto the model. Later I realized some features are not necessary because it doesn't interact with other parts in the assembly, and also I do not have the time to make my model perfectly accurate. 2. Battery cover After thicken, extruding surface and cut the sides, one face was missing and you can see through the part but this is a solid.... weird. It appears the same when I open the file in other computer as well.  I couldn't fill surface because the boundary is not straight lines and there is a weird curve in the filled surface. I tried offsetting the cut surface in for abo...

Learnt to use features in surfaces, which can be quite hard to use even when following the tutorial videos and step by step pdf file ( projected curve never makes sense to me). Problems I faced throughout the making: 1.  Bottom housing chamfer  In the video it is mentioned that the sketch of the edge of the mouse bottom according to the bottom image can be converted from the sketch from bottom housing but when I did that there is no "chamfer". So I traced the inner edge of the mouse instead of convert entities from the bottom housing chamfer done. 2.Top surface free form. Before the free form my top surface looks like this. I tried adjusting the sketches on middle housing and top surface but I just couldn't achieve the "hill" at the middle front part that is in between the finger dimples so I just jump into free form. my conclusion after playing with free form for hours: its just too hard to control. This is the closest I could ...