Reverse Engineering: Progress 1

The object I ended up going with was a pair of scissors for my reverse engineering project. I believe that's do-able for three weeks if I really pay attention to every detail.

Everything seemed simple until I actually started measuring things. I laid out a blueprint of my scissors that I drew... as tried to write out all my measurements the best I could. But realized that I had to do both front and side measurements. Along with all the curved sides, hidden angled chunks that were different measurements on the side and front views.

Another trouble I was having was that sides of the scizzors, because I was working with the scizzors still in tack. I haven't taken it apart yet, so there was only one side of the scissor I can fully see and measure. So I realized that I had been drawing the wrong size of the scizzor. Thankfully I didn't add details

As shown in the picture above, I thought it would have been a great idea to just measure everything from two angles at first then put them together digitally, like that technical drawing 3D project we had. But that wasn't the case because I found out it was much easier to measure as you go along. Then you can pick up on simple mistakes and angles of every shape that weren't fully angled correctly.

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