Now here’s something I am completely terrible at but love. Probably because I can visualise the problems that I want to fix right away. I’m hoping to have some good understanding about SolidWorks to make some awesome projects. Although we used a tutorial to familiarise ourselves with the program, I’m already imagining more complicated objects I’d like to work with.

For my Ballistics project we needed to parse an x3p file (binary file) to output values/NaN which will allow us to determine whether a bullet scan with many missing values was caused by human error or contains actual break-off. I’ve tried to work on this since Friday night and am still finding trouble. Our mentor Ganesh told us to practice actually parsing binary files. I’ve searched high and low for something that should be simple enough…