Completing the IKEA Challenge

IKEA Challenge Day 2 began with some lessons in perspective drawing.  Following that we started building the parts of our chair using SolidWorks.  We learnt to assemble parts using a pre-prepared stool in SolidWorks.  It's a process of 3D “mating” of parts – all 3 planes have to be mated, so it takes a bit of getting into.

Once we had assembled IKEA chair from its parts, we moved onto rendering it, then exporting it to Photoshop to place in situ.  Dave tried to teach me how to create an Alpha channel/mask.  I'll need a bit of practice.  On all of this CAD stuff.  But I was pleased how much I was able to pick up in two days and I wasn't useless.