Project Context

Cornerstone Engineering 2, GE 1501, is an introductory course at Northeastern University that provides first-year engineering students the foundations of engineering. In this assignment we used SolidWorks to design a chessboard. During this assignment, we tested features that SolidWorks offers. These features included revolve boss/base, fillets, trim, extrude, mirror entities, and loft. This assignment was separated into two parts!

Part 1: Plan and Model

My partner, Mia, and I decided that we wanted our theme to be food. I designed an egg, pizza slice, and an ice-cream cone. Mia worked on designing a sushi roll, coffee cup, and a cake.

Ice Cream Cone:

The Queen chess piece is represented with a ice-cream cone. I decided that I would use the revolve boss/base feature to create the cone, use fillets to soften the ice cream, and learn how to use the trim feature to make the ice cream cone look sharper.

Pizza Slice: 

The Knight chess piece is represented with a pizza slice. I decided to use the extrude feature to make the pizza thick, mirror entities to make symmetrical pepperoni pieces, and applied fillets to round the edges and crusts. 

Egg:

The Pawn piece is represented with an egg. I decided to use the revolved boss/base feature to create a side profile for the egg and fillets to smooth the egg.

During this assignment, we were requested to draw what we would think our pieces would look like. From left to right, I drew an ice-cream cone, pizza slice, and an egg. Before beginning part 2 of this assignment, I inferred the ice-cream cone and the pizza slice to be the most difficult to create.