During much of quarter three in our technology class we worked on completing a project of our wildest dreams. The main constraint being that this project required us to use something related to technology. This meant that we need to be very good at technology literacy and self directional skills the most. We needed technology literacy skills because of course, we needed to prominently use a form of technology in this project. we definitely needed to use self directional skills so that we didn't end up procrastinating and having to make up all of our work at the last minuet.
I'm proud of this project because I actually learned how to use a professional CAD software to create a pretty complex design with moving parts. I'm also pretty happy that I was able to effectively iterate and design new parts of the bearing that eventually ended up working successfully.
The 21st century skill that I was almost forced to improve upon was my self directional skills. For me this was because for projects like this with a due date that's pretty far in the future I sometimes develop a mindset in which I always say "I have plenty of time and I don't need to work". I eventually figured out that I was procrastinating early enough and still finished my project in a timely manner, so now I hope I learned my lesson for the final time.
I think the most difficult things about completing this task was learning how to use a professional CAD software to the point of being able to create complex designs, and finding the problems within a design and finding ways to fix them.
If I could restart my project I would probably not put five parts of the bearing in the same CAD file because that just made it more and more difficult to edit individual parts of the bearing because every time I tried to find a measurement I had to sift through a mess of different parts.
This relates to almost all of the OnShape work I was assigned in quarter three because in this particular project I had to use everything I learned in previous classes. I probably couldn't have done anything close to this without the classes that Mr. Viets and Mr. Murali taught.
I can apply much of this to future learning because I think we will see many more projects and much, much more OnShape assignments.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents?nodeId=d5cc18439def47695db8b680&resourceType=folder
I'm proud of this project because I actually learned how to use a professional CAD software to create a pretty complex design with moving parts. I'm also pretty happy that I was able to effectively iterate and design new parts of the bearing that eventually ended up working successfully.
The 21st century skill that I was almost forced to improve upon was my self directional skills. For me this was because for projects like this with a due date that's pretty far in the future I sometimes develop a mindset in which I always say "I have plenty of time and I don't need to work". I eventually figured out that I was procrastinating early enough and still finished my project in a timely manner, so now I hope I learned my lesson for the final time.
I think the most difficult things about completing this task was learning how to use a professional CAD software to the point of being able to create complex designs, and finding the problems within a design and finding ways to fix them.
If I could restart my project I would probably not put five parts of the bearing in the same CAD file because that just made it more and more difficult to edit individual parts of the bearing because every time I tried to find a measurement I had to sift through a mess of different parts.
This relates to almost all of the OnShape work I was assigned in quarter three because in this particular project I had to use everything I learned in previous classes. I probably couldn't have done anything close to this without the classes that Mr. Viets and Mr. Murali taught.
I can apply much of this to future learning because I think we will see many more projects and much, much more OnShape assignments.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents?nodeId=d5cc18439def47695db8b680&resourceType=folder