So… here is something with which i am inloved with this week 
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a. Making CD’s for conference
b. Making a small podeum design in solidworks.
Details :
a. So got this request to make cd’s for someone here in mechanical department, and also their cd covers/lables. Nothing too extreme of a request but am still waiting for approval of my cd design i made by them, so i can convert it the printer friendly version (Epson R260 is the printer we will be using). So, hopefully by friday they will have both content and design approved so we go in production . Probably will need to burn atleast 150 CD’s and print labels on each, so look at about 3-4 hrs of cover snapping and 8-16 hrs of cd burning ahead of me . (KOOL but boring stuff)
b. Now using Solidworks is something really cool and fun, for my biomedical project i got my hands on training (only small intro) to how to make few cool shapes (like rectangles and circles ) and exctuding them and cutting them and stuff. This design we are doing for Podium does not seem too bad… Took me however few hrs to figure out how to start actually building it, started with the wrong view (top view) at first but that was not working out well , so looked at some tutorial and found that he started with the right plane.
So i decided to be smart like the solid works tutorial guy ! and ended up making the initial podium design in like 5 mins …… That was like yesterday, but still am waiting to hear back from the shops people of what kinda sheet metal thickness is available so i can accordingly have to design it to give it the strength it needs. Making cable runners is on it is fun , might as well design something else like the Clamp to hold it in place on the table too.. today.
But its fun and a nice switch from daily webmaster stuff to mechanical design stuff (mind u i aint no mechincal engineer, more like i am electronics engineer ) .
I shall post the design here on the blog when its all finished for people to download and look at my noobish solidworks skills !!
