Taking FIRST PLACE is.......
The SECOND PLACE WINNER IS.....
Congratulations Everyone!
Last week of school!
Tuesday
Every PLTW student must take an End of Course exam online. There are 40 multiple choice questions. This exam will be graded as a 15 point assignment in Powerschool. Try to do your best!
The URL to the exam is https://student.assessment.pltw.org/
Thursday
Desk organizer contest! You will see the final product from all three of my classes and you choose your first and second favorite. Yes, there will be prizes!
At this point in the desk organizer project, your team should have completed modeling the individual pieces and assembling the product.
Please annotate each hand drawn multiview with the name of who actually modeled the piece in Inventor, and on the multiview of the whole product, who assembed it.
Completing this project entails 6 more tasks:
1. creating a cropped image of your assembled desk organizer,
2. creating a multi-view drawing using the KCS title block of the assembled desk organizer, with the 3 size dimensions.
3. creating an animation of your assembly for me to view, and
4. creating an exploded view drawing of your desk organizer with balloons and a parts list.
5. updating your presentation with the image, the multi-view of the assembly, the animation, and the exploded view drawing.
6. giving a 5-minute presentation about your desk organizer.
Following are steps 1 - 4.
Create an image of your assembled desk organizer:
1. Open the assembly file, zoom in as much as possible, and take a screenshot (hit the PrtScr key).
2. Paste this screenshot into Microsoft Paint.
3. Crop the image so that all you can see is the desk organizer.
4. Save this to your Z: drive as a JPG file, with a filename of deskOrganizer-image.
To receive credit for this assignment, insert this image in your presentation.
Create a multi-view drawing of your desk organizer assembly and include the 3 size dimensions:
1. Create a new KCS-A drawing file.
- Assignment = DESK ORGANIZER PROJECT
- Part Name = ASSEMBLY DIMENSIONS
2. Click Base from the ribbon and select your organizer assembly (.iam) file.
3. Change the scale to produce an view that covers about a quarter of the drawing file, and place one instance on the drawing.
4. Add a text box and add the scale to the correct location in the legend on the bottom of the drawing.
5. Add the 3 size dimensions - width, height and depth.
6. Save the drawing file
7. Export the drawing as an image, in GIF format.
To receive credit for this assignment, insert this image in your presentation.
Create an animation of your desk organizer assembly:
1. Create a new presentation (standard.ipn) file.
2. Click Create View on the ribbon:
- select the assembly file
- set the Explosion Method to Automatic
- set the Distance to 2"
3. Save this file as organizer-presentation to your Z: drive.
4. Click Animate on the ribbon to record an animation of the train assembly.
- click the red Record button
- save it into your Z: drive with a filename of organizer-animation
- in the Export properties window, select an image size of 320X 240, click OK
- back in the little dialogue box, click the PLAY button to start the recording
- there should now be a WMV video file of your animation in your Z: drive that you can view in Windows Media Player
To receive credit for this assignment, insert this video in your presentation.
Create an exploded view drawing of your desk organizer assembly, add balloons to each of the pieces, and include a parts list:
1. Create a new KCS-A drawing file.
- Assignment = DESK ORGANIZER PROJECT
- Part Name = EXPLODED VIEW
2. Click Base from the ribbon and select your organizer-animation presentation (.ipn) file.
3. Change the scale to produce an exploded view that covers about half of the drawing file, and place one instance on the drawing.
3a. Add a text box and add the scale to the correct location in the legend on the bottom of the drawing.
4. Add balloons to each piece by clicking the Annotate tab above the ribbon, pulldown on the Balloons tile on right side of the ribbon and select Auto Balloons. Select the options until OK is active.
5. Move the balloons around so that they do not cross over the drawing.
6. Add a parts list by clicking Parts List tile on the ribbon, and select your desk organizer assembly (.iam) file.
7. Place the parts list in the top right corner of the drawing.
8. Edit the parts list and delete the Description column:
- right-click on the parts list and click Edit Parts List
- in the Parts List dialogue box, click on the Column Chooser tile (left most one)
- remove the Description column
9. Save the drawing with a filename of DeskOrganizer Explosion.
10. Export the drawing as an image, in GIF format.
To receive credit for this assignment, insert this GIF image in your presentation.
PRESENTATIONS WILL BE ON FRIDAY, MAY 27th.
Please take this survey, which helps MEDB receive grant money for school technology:
- Complete hand-drawn multi-view technical drawings with size dimensions for each of the desk organizer pieces
- Complete a multi-view drawing with size dimensions for the WHOLE desk organizer
- Scan each multi-view drawing (instructions posted by the printer workstation) and insert each scan on slides on your presentation
- In Inventor, create a new single-user project named Desk Organizer.
- Decide within your team who is going to model which parts of your desk organizer. Everyone has to model at least one piece of the desk organizer.
- Create your part file(s) and begin modeling.
