At the end of Spring quarter 2018, for the final project in my intro to CAD class, we were asked to design an “assembly” in SolidWorks. It had to have at least 5 parts, 3 mates, and some variety of size/dimensioning requirements. As a lifelong skier, my first impulse was to make a ski lift, but then I realized that a Ferris wheel would make a cooler assembly model, and a funner visual spectacle.
