3D CAD Design

Overview

3D CAD may include 3 main products: the CAD file, screenshot, and screencast. The screenshot is a visual representation of the file so someone can get a bearing on what's inside. The screencast is informative in that it helps a person understand the design readily.

The 3D CAD documents should also link to OSE-approved Library Parts (Warehouse) - see also Parts Library

Process

• Upload your CAD file, and screenshots for reference - to the wiki page.
• To generate 3D CAD for mechanical devices, use stock parts found in the Warehouse.

• See Sketchup Tutorial 1 and Sketchup Tutorial 2.
• Start a new Sketchup document.
• Copy objects from the Warehouse file, and paste into your new Sketchup document.
• Rotate and arrange objects to create your complete design.

• Use RecordMyDesktop with full voice quality and 10% video quality to record a video overview of the design and features - this communicates the design most readily to others for review. At 10%, rendering is almost immediate for a 1 minute video. You can use higher video quality.

Samples

It took about 10 seconds to render this with RecordMyDesktop:

File:File name