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Engineering Design with SOLIDWORKS® 2018 Extrude and Revolve Features

Project Situation

You work for a company that specializes in providing promotional tradeshow products.

The company is expecting a sales order for 100,000 flashlights with a potential for

500,000 units next year. Prototype drawings of the flashlight are required in three weeks.

You are the design engineer responsible for the project. You contact the customer to

discuss design options and product specifications. The customer informs you that the

flashlights will be used in an international marketing promotional campaign. Key

customer requirements:

• Inexpensive reliable flashlight.

• Available advertising space of 10 square

inches, 64.5 square centimeters.

• Lightweight semi-indestructible body.

• Self-standing with a handle.

Your company's standard product line does not

address the above key customer requirements.

The customer made it clear that there is no room

for negotiation on the key product

requirements.

You contact the salesperson and obtain

additional information on the customer

and product. This is a very valuable

customer with a long history of last

minute product changes. The job has high

visibility with great future potential.

In a design review meeting, you present a

conceptual sketch. Your colleagues

review the sketch. The team's consensus is to

proceed with the conceptual design.

The first key design decision is the battery. The battery type

directly affects the flashlight body size, bulb intensity, case

structure integrity, weight, manufacturing complexity and cost.

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