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Ben Arent
Product Designer
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My First Real Design Project (AS)

August 6, 2007

I have been doing some PC cleaning recently and stumbled upon these old photos. These are for a ergonomic kettle poorer. The Kettle tipper addressed the problem of not being able to get a steady flow of hot water as the kettle empted. I used a cam motion, the product didn’t really work, and was made pretty badly.

This project taught me a lot, and was my first real introduction to CAD. Using Pro-Desktop for this project.

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A Active Prototype

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3rd Angle Projection

CAD

Rought CAD

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First Prototype, (yes. Only one!)

final product

The Final Product in all its PLY good-ness.



2 Comments »

  1. [...] the end of your AS you will create a project, in retrospect my AS product sucks, but the vision and ideas behind it were clear.  My product was let down by the manufacturing technique (Ply [...]

    Pingback by » a level product design. A Product Design Undergraduate opinion. — August 29, 2007 @ 6:15 am

  2. I am a project developer i have invented household containers. and sold them. i have taken my money paid cash for a nice home and car.
    i have a lot of design in my head . afraid to go to school
    to learn because i cannot spell. and remember very well.
    would love to take classes CAD classes but afraid.

    I think your work in wonderful
    I don.t understand your charts.
    I have printed them out to study

    Comment by electlady11 — January 15, 2008 @ 11:54 am

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