Time to Model

Post by Kaivahn Sarkaratpour 

This week Frankie and I sat down to begin modeling a prosthetic device that would aid as a support to hold a trumpet. As it turns out, this process was not as easy we thought it would be. Using an existing model of a trumpet to base our design off of, we found that it was hard to create offsets of the parts we wanted and unioning them was just as picky. Once we built our cap that would encase the bottom of the trumpet, then we began to visualize how we would incorporate a gauntlet into the design. 

We first built up a framework that would attach to the trumpet and started to subtract parts that would cause an interference making it impossible to pull out the trumpet from the holder. It was hard to visualize how we could successfully attach this adapter to the trumpet because we would need to be holding on with a minimal amount of material, making the design weak. We tried re-positioning the device in several ways but weren't quite successful at making something work. We decided to take a break from the design and come back to it with some fresh perspective.