Cowcatcher

I’ve had some experience with 3-D modelling. Particularly with Autodesk but also a little bit of Solidworks. This is because it is part of one of our engineering classes and I also use it to model our parts for Robotics. However, this particular part is the part I made for a project for my engineering class. (Included mostly because it is the only 3-D modelling of mine I specifically remember.) We had gathered into teams to design an entire toy train for our Introduction to PLTW 1 class, and I was tasked with designing the hardest part, the cowcatcher. I believe I also assembled the thing into an assembly file, and I possibly may have designed another part on the train, but I do not recall that. We had all done our parts, we got to print out train. I got to receive the train, partially due to the fact that I had slyly embossed my name onto the Cowcatcher. (In all fairness, I did ask everyone on the team, and everyone said they did not care if I did that.) Sadly, I no longer have that project, and the train has been misplaced. (Not to blame my parents here or anything, but it was likely tossed by my mom into one of the many childhood memory boxes stored in the attic.) Fortunately, the project is a common engineering project for Introduction to PLTW 1. As such, the following two images are not of my project. Rather, these two images are there to give you an example of what my Cowcatcher looked like, and what the train assembly looked like.