Behold my mighty soap dish! Are you not awed at its magnificence?!? Seriously though it has been a lot of effort and learning surfaces and I even managed to corrupt the file at one point trying to automatically shell the bottom face after doing the fins on the top face. Let me know what you think. (I know, I know I should be moving through the coursework, but this is fun, and girlfriend's soap is always melting) i cleaned up the feature tree because this part is more or less done, but there is still a bit of junk in there. I had a terrible time getting the variable fillet to be stable on the top face when i first made it (likely part of what led to the SW-crashing shell command failure) but later on I did the same type of operation while manually shelling and it went pretty much perfectly.... i guess practice makes perfect (or was it Fillet Options > Overflow Type > Keep surface ... hmmm) The plan is to split the model on the plane shown and print two halves in vase mode with a fat nozzle, then solvent-weld them together. Though looking at it now it seems like I will need to remodel the fin profiles because the fat nozzle will make the fins at the edges not turn out right, and the fillets on the bottom of the fins will be more or less invisible. Next I will learn some in-context assembly work because I want to have a separate part that snaps in the bottom to register the part for the glueing as well as hold some non-slip feet.

I passed the cswp! thank you to this group

Back from vacation and this is the continuation of the "harder gearbox set". I tried to get the internal line to be more smooth but somehow it kept giving me a strangely complex fin arrangement, so I just went with it. I put the insets in the impeller for some bearings and a shaft. OK community, How does it look? I do like the star shape that just happened to appear.

Which Thumbnail looks better for my next upcoming video? Seeing how strongly SW is pushing towards the 3DExperience platform integration, I don't want you to fall behind the train so I am covering more grounds for you.

I got a pair of electric spice grinders with a base that they like to fall off of. I needed a way for them to be held to the base until I want to use them. I decided putting neodymium magnets into the base might hold them well enough. Since I didn't want to modify the original base trying to add the magnets, I designed on up in SolidWorks with the pockets for the round magnets. I like how it looks so far and need to 3d print it. Here's a couple pics: