I started my PD project with a single idea. A medicine box. This felt with the flow as during the time there was a flu outbreak. During an outbreak, a medicine box would highly benefit one as they carry large quantities of pills, they can keep it organized and have an easy way of accessing the said medicine. The box I had in mind was a rectangular box, with a lid that can be slid open and grooves to support it. I designed a dragon on each of the longer faces as the dragons symbolizes my origins and Chinese medicine. This was all easy said than done. The dragon had to be copied into fusion by saving the image, uploading the image to Fusion, tracing the dragon and making a rectangle to surround it. This probably took most of the time used to make the box. One of the strategies I developed along the way is to trace the rough outline of the dragon then make changes afterwards. This made the process a lot more efficient.

Some technical skills I developed along the way was to correctly utilize rectangular pattern, offsetting and improving on my spline accuracy. These all helped me to make my designing process a lot more efficient. The splining of the dragons was extremely tough, as you had to be accurate and you had to zoom in on the picture to make it more precise. Another part was the fingers. The measurements on the fingers were hard to get as my rectangle was not snapped to grid.

Reflecting and Sharing

Something I have to help newer students is to not underestimate the project. It may seem simple but there is a lot of things that have to be considered. If I had to do it all over again is that I would pick simpler designs to do, as a complicated design on it’s own doesn’t look very good. Generally I think the whole project was very fun.