Progress so far for the Shell Eco Marathon
https://www.makethefuture.shell/en-gb/shell-eco-marathon
To begin the school year my teacher Mr. Grosinger told the class about the Shell Eco Marathon and gave us their website to let us in on what it was all about. He told us we would be building a car for the event but first we would needed to read the rules of the Shell Eco Marathon to make sure we follow their rules and are able to participate.
We each gave ourselves a task for or part of the body that we were going to work on and then build if we got back to school. The part that I got was the body of the car like the design and measurements of the car.
My first task was to make my own measurements based on the restrictions that the Shell Eco Marathon and make the body of the car and then draw it. I used a scaling and converting website to help me change the restrictions off the Shell Eco Marathon into different measurements so I could draw it on paper
This was the first drawing I made with the measurements and in isometric and orthographic form. The drawings were all made using the measurements that I came up with for what I thought would best be useful for our car.
I redesigned the drawings that I made since I wanted to know what the team wanted me to change so they could also get a say in what the car would look like and how it would fit. I cleaned the lines and made some improvements to the cars body that the team recommended me to change and then changed the body by removing some parts of the original build.
Before making a 3D model of the Shell Eco Marathon Mr. Grosinger told me to make a 3D model of a different car so I could get a reference and an idea of how to build the Shell Eco Marathon. I found a 3D version of a Lamborghini Countach and Mr.G bought it for me to put together.
After finishing the 3D model on the Lamborghini Mr. G told me to make a blog from start to finish on how I built the Lamborghini. The blog I made was then posted on Linkedin and then I started to work on the 3D model of the Shell Eco Marathon.
I tried to find a different kind of 3D model and found a motorcycle model that I thought I could use as another reference for my build. After building this model I started on my build for the Shell Eco Marathon.
The first part that I started the 3D model with was with the base of the model and then started to fold and cut pieces of paper that I could use for the parts of the car model. The parts I created were long strips of paper that I would fold and then cut slits into them to make them round.
The finished product of the car model that I made looked like a shoe and I wanted to fix that so it looks more like a car. The car model was very hard to put together with the folds but I think that making a 3D version on OnShape will be better.
