Night Sky Fidgets- Final Project

I started in the front plane of solid works and created a circle. Then I set its diameter to 10 cm and extruded it by 5 cm. I did this process for both the moon and star. 

Then to create the moon's shape I selected the face of the circle and adding in my crescent moon image. I selected face, then appearance and browse to find the image in all image files and imported the image onto the circle. 

After the image was on the circle I zoomed in and moved it around using the mapping tool to perfectly size it to my circle and traced the outline of image. 

Then I created a constraint box around the circle using construction lines (I made it 8 cm by 8 cm) and I removed the remaining circle by extrude cutting it so I was just left with the crescent moon shape. 

After I used offset entities and offset each time by 0.1 cm inwards until it reached the center and I couldn't extrude further. 

Then I did a series of boss extruding and extrude cutting each offset, alternating between the two. Making sure that both were set to 25 deg and going through the sketch. For boss extrude I changed “blind” to “Up to surface” and for extrude cut changed “blind” to “through-all”.

The last step was to mirror the boss extrude and extrude cut from the front plane to the back plane. I did this by clicking on the mirror tool and selecting each boss/cut extrude and selecting merge solid to successfully mirror each extrude (to having both on each side).

This should be the result of your moon in solid works. 

Next for the star shape I imported the image onto the face of the circle (repeating the same steps for the moon) then outlined its shape and deleted the extra part of the circle till I was just left with the stars outline. 

Then I offset the star shape inwards by 0.1 until it reached the center and I could no longer extrude it. 

After I had completed the offsetting and was moving on to boss extruding and extruded cut I ran into a problem I had not been expecting. The lines of the stars were not even, which from the first few offsets I wasn't able to tell but the closer towards the center the offsetting got you could see that the stars lines were uneven. 

So I went back into the sketch of the star and set the lines to “equal” this ensured that each line was the same length and would offset correctly. I also went back and slightly curved the inside lines (their points by 0.01) so it would be easier to create more offsets. 

Then I had help to mirror the cut/boss extrudes made in the front plane to the back plane so the extrusions went through both sides of the star. 

Then these were my final products of the moon and star after they were printed out.