February 18, 2016

Today, we visited TechShop, http://www.techshop.ws, to learn how to use MeshMixer. We will be using MeshMixer to construct our custom insole, and then to incorporate the use of Inventor.  We will use Inventor in order to construct the sides of the brace, that connect the calve section of the brace to the sole. After we complete this, we will work on the elasticity function.  Rough sketches for both of these designs can be found below.  We will construct the custom insole using MeshMixer and the sides using Inventor, then combine them into one solid object in MeshMixer with the Boolean Union function.  We are also expecting to visit TechShop once again to improve our custom insole and to also improve our prototype as a whole before sharing it on March 8th, at TechShop.