Design of the Day

I am working to become an industrial designer, so I want to learn to use many design tools, and greatly improve my design abilities this year. I plan to make at least one design every day; either abstract, illustrative, or reverse engineered (copied). SolidWorks is quite useful, so I'm studying that at the moment. Over the last few days, I have made several models to explore the various features in the program. Here, I chose an object in my room to model, so that I could put my knowledge of all the new techniques to the test. I had a fun time figuring out the right combination of features to use to make it work. I then spent a long time working on the settings, scene, and materials to render it properly. It's a pretty close match. This is a cutaway view of my Bose Companion speaker. I'm just guessing at what it might be like inside, as I didn't actually dismantle it. I'll post the abstract experiments I made so far in the next post.