Eiffel tower
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I am making a Eiffel tower from scratch. This is going to be a very fun project and I’m very exited to make this.
I am making a Eiffel tower from scratch. This is going to be a very fun project and I’m very exited to make this.
This is what the Eiffel Tower looks like now . I fixed the colors of the Eiffel Tower to be more realistic like the real thing.
The one challenge that I had was coloring everything because some of the colors did not look realistic at all compared to the real Eiffel Tower, so I had to change the colors like halfway through, but I got it to work out!
This was super fun and exciting to make. I really liked learning all the features of Onshape, and I had a really good time doing this . I would recommend this.
I’m trying to improve the detail of the Eiffel tower such as the supports and the Gard rails. I also want to improve the top of the Eiffel tower as that is the most detailed part of it
-All 3 layers
-crossbeams
-beams (up and down)
I have had many challenges such as the Eiffel tower had 4 floors instead of 3 so I had to make the beams bigger to close it off. The size was hard to do because some pillars have to be the same size exactly so that was a challenge.
this project is very fun and I’m almost done I can wait to keep you guys updated!
My last thing was the Rivet (The red circle) the rivet mirrored good but it didn’t mirror in the right spot so I had to transform it so it would move then I had to mirror it one the other side, this was the real challenge because it didn’t rotate correct. What I had to do to fix it was easy. All I had to do was make a sketch and make it vertical this way I could make it rotate properly.
What I will do is add the detail first this will make it so when I change it its better to fix all the errors first then later on because you might forget some. I will go layer by layer for detail (fist layer ill try to do as much detail as I can).
I will also not have the same amount of Rivet that the Eiffel tower has just because the Eiffel tower has about 2.5 million Rivets.
I cant wait to show your more on this project I feel really happy on how this turned out and exited to see how it will turn out.
What I Want to add (veg)
More details to the body such as the grid support, also have the guardrail have holes in it adding the rest of the base and and coloring it to the correct color.
Some of the challenges was making the arches because the arch has such a weird shape to it and this was hard to sketch it out but eventually I found the right tool. Another problem was when I tried to mirror it, it wasn’t faced the right way, I overcame this challenge by using the transform tool to rotate it into place then used the same tool to move it into place.
this will be a very fun project to make, This is my second cad project and of course I will try to make it look more alike the real thing but so far its looking good!