Bracket
![](https://sites.lib.jmu.edu/adrihooker/files/2021/04/IMG_0013-768x1024.png)
To make this bracket I first started by sketching the outline.
![](https://sites.lib.jmu.edu/adrihooker/files/2021/04/IMG_0015-768x1024.png)
I then pulled the face of the object to make it 3D.
![](https://sites.lib.jmu.edu/adrihooker/files/2021/04/IMG_0017-1-768x1024.png)
Next I needed to sketch the shape I wanted to cut out on the face of the object and then pull it through to cut it out.
![](https://sites.lib.jmu.edu/adrihooker/files/2021/04/IMG_0022-1-768x1024.png)
I then added a plane on top of the object so that I could sketch another shape that I needed to cut out and I used the trim tool to remove lines that I did not need.
![](https://sites.lib.jmu.edu/adrihooker/files/2021/04/IMG_0024-1-768x1024.png)
After this I pulled that sketch through to cut the shape the way I wanted and then on the layers menu I hid all of the sketches which left me with this.
![](https://sites.lib.jmu.edu/adrihooker/files/2021/04/IMG_0026-1-768x1024.png)
Then I sketched a circle and a rectangle and I used the co-centric tool to make the circle even in comparison to the object. I again used the trim tool to get rid of the lines within the circle. The all I did was pull the sketch through to cut it out.
![](https://sites.lib.jmu.edu/adrihooker/files/2021/04/IMG_0028-1-768x1024.png)
I then need to fillet the edges on this to smooth them.
![](https://sites.lib.jmu.edu/adrihooker/files/2021/04/IMG_0030-1-768x1024.png)
Next, I hid the body I made so I could just work on the base by making a rectangle then rounding the edges and adding 4 circles. I used the co-centric took to make sure they were aligned with each corner. Then I pulled through the faces to cut out the circles.
![](https://sites.lib.jmu.edu/adrihooker/files/2021/04/IMG_0033-1-768x1024.png)
I unhid the body and had my final product but needed to select both body and unify them.
![](https://sites.lib.jmu.edu/adrihooker/files/2021/04/IMG_0036-1-768x1024.png)
This was my final product! It was a lot harder than I expected and I did mess up somewhere along the way and got a flat edge along the back but it turned out okay!
Stylus
For my second model I chose the stylus tutorial and I really struggled. I actually went back and forth between a few of the tutorials and ended up on this one because I was able to get the furthest into it.
![](https://sites.lib.jmu.edu/adrihooker/files/2021/04/IMG_0041-2-768x1024.png)
This was the initial sketch I started out with that I was then able to revolve into the stylus shape. It was so surprising to me that such a simple sketch would turn in to almost exactly what I wanted.
![](https://sites.lib.jmu.edu/adrihooker/files/2021/04/IMG_0042-768x1024.png)
I was able to round the bottom but then the tutorial moved into a lot of other things and I was unable to figure out what he was doing. For some reason this tutorial was a lot harder for me to follow than the bracket tutorial.
![](https://sites.lib.jmu.edu/adrihooker/files/2021/04/IMG_0043-2-768x1024.png)
Then I made the stand for the stylus by just sketching a shape almost like a parallelogram and then revolving it. I believe I revolved it on the wrong axis but of all the ways I tried this was the best I could get it.
Although this did not turn out the way it should I still learned a lot more than I knew even from the bracket tutorial. I am going to keep working at this in the hopes that I figure out what I did wrong.