I went back and finished the hinges for the door that got deleted in the last post I made. They look exactly like the hinges in the previous post.
I also made the mesh screen that is going in the cat porch. This too me some time to do because I essentially had to make a whole bunch of tiny square cuts in a piece of metal. Luckily, solidworks has this amazing patter feature where you can mimic a sketch or feature in a circular or linear pattern. However, most people only use this to make a few reoccurring feature and not to make thousands of them.
When I first tried to make all the cuts in one go solidworks kept crashing because there were too many for it to handle. I then cut it down to only do 100 in the x and y direction at once. The first time it worked but the second time it did not. Finally I began doing it 50 at a time in each direction and that worked much better. I was only able to get a couple quick pictures on my phone of this being made due to the fact that it kept crashing so I will insert in down below.
Next week I would like to start working on the cat tree that will be positioned on the wall. I feel it will mostly be extruded rectangles that I will have to assemble on the wall once finished. My main task next week is to design and get all the dimensions I need down pat and model what I can with the time I have left.
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