Hi all,

For my d.t mini project i have to design a computer mouse and i need to draw it in Pro-Desktop.

Does anyone know if there is an easy way of doing a rectangle with curved corners other than making a rectangle and putting circles at each corner?

TIA,

Lorna

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TIA,

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isnt that an oval.lol.

I can draw you one in autocad if thats any help ????

isnt that an oval.lol.

I can draw you one in autocad if thats any help ????

No-ovals dont do a flat edge with curved sides!! Nah-i need to draw it all in pro-desktop cos my teacher is intent on us using it!!

No-ovals dont do a flat edge with curved sides!! Nah-i need to draw it all in pro-desktop cos my teacher is intent on us using it!!

what shape is an 400m running track?????

what shape is an 400m running track?????

thats an oval!! (i have ran it enough!!) But what i want is a rectangle but with slightly curved corners!! and now i want to put a face on it!!

thats an oval!! (i have ran it enough!!) But what i want is a rectangle but with slightly curved corners!! and now i want to put a face on it!!

not knowing Pro-Desktop in the slightest - do you have a fillet radius tool? that should sort your rounded edges if you have, and if its a 3d drawing you could extrude the plan to the required depth and shell the extrusion removing one face, if you get what i mean.

Like an open shoe box with curved edges.

I dont know if that helps, but let me know how you get on

when she showed it to me i thought it was a soap bar... :P sowwy!!

Hi Lorna

I'm afraid I can't help either on Pro-desktop, but my first thought was also to try to draw it as viewed from a different angle, or perhaps do an enlarged "detail" of that aspect, which might be easier, with words describing it if necessary?

If it's not a stupid question, if your tutor has insisted on that software, why can't he answer the question - am I missing something here? Also, some of your friends will presumably be using circular "click buttons" in their designs - can you glean any info from them?

Also, if it's a pro version, does it not have enough help screens to keep you going until the next millennium?

Sorry, but I'm casting around in the dark here.

Best wishes

Mo

Hi all,

Why don't i ask my teacher-um he and i don't get on too well-he kept moaning that no one had started to make their mice and i said well we have got about 2 weeks and 3 days left so we don't need to rush that much and he got all stroppy and said that we have less than that because we have a week of work experience and i said that i had taken that week out allready!! oops! oh well he saw he had annoyed me so kept complimenting me!!

Tutorials on the program-yeah but i can't be bothered to go through them all just to find out one bit of info and also i have work soon!!

I will try to attach a picture of the drawing i drew by hand earlier which i am trying to do on Pro-Desktop. Then you can all see what im trying to do instead of me explaining it weirdly and confusing everyone!!!

Lorna

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When you select an object, you should get sizing handles (blobs you can drag to resize the object). In some packages, right-clicking a sizing handle gives you a menu with options like rounding off the corners.

Might work with your software.

Hi Lorna

I still can't help on the technology, though I did read a book once called "The Mote in God's Eye" (authors Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle) a feature of which was that the alien species was able to re-form tools to suit the muscular structure of the users' hands (hence their rise to fame in the novel).

The point being that square-ended mice at the back will sit less easily between the thumb and little finger meeting place than do slimmer rounded ones.(*) Thinking design here.

Of course your examiners might not have read that book, but it's just possible that they've used "mice" before Given that fantastic cardboard steam tractor model you made, have you done a similar test on this design?

Just an aside 2 cents but hopefully you can see where I'm coming from, i.e. ovals might be needed at the back end as well.

Best

Mo

(*) Sorry, I should have said that I am thinking of potential "repetitive strain injury" here if muscles have to be retained in a stretched or otherwise tense position rather than a comfortable natural position.

Pro-Desktop? Is that autocad addon? I use Pro-Engineer at work, any relation?

Lorna - Pro/Desktop is a stripped down version of Pro/Engineer - which, I've been using for 6 years and have done every training course available on it

Pro/Desktop is a cunning plan by PTC to offer 3D CAD to schools and colleges for free so that pupils then go on to use Pro/Engineer at Uni and then they'll want it when their employers change from 2D to 3D.

Drawn a rectangle and fillet the corners - its the only way to do it.

Why dont you want to do it that way ?

TaviaRS, you're having a field day today aren't you?

The one I bought clearly said "It's not for girls" so I swapped it for a trouser press like advertised in the Octy advert and non-iron shirts for the menfolk - everyone's happy

Mo

Because that was a year ago

Reading back up the thread, if you want the hollow shoe-box look then the method above is one way, but the prefered PTC method is to extrude a rectangle then chamfer the edges in one op. before shelling it.

It makes life easier if you want to mod things later, especially if you become a Pro/E user and start looking at parametrically driven designs.

Incidentally, if they'd got you to use SolidWorks you wouldnt need to ask - its soooo much more user friendly

Or get a draftsman

I charge £29 p/h for draughting work if you're interested Lorna.