Progress Report 4 - Finishing the Surfacing

In the image below you can see I'm half way through creating the development of the middle housing of the mouse shell. Using the fill surface feature with a tangent edge to the side sketch, it will create a smooth finish all the way around it.

 The next stage of the surfacing was to create the finger grooves. In the image below I have created a series of planes to allow further precision which I will sketch on to create a some guide curves.

Making further progress, in the image below you can see I have now completed the main surfacing of the entire mouse. I'm currently at the stage of creating the curvature for the mouse wheel.

Using the surface fill tool once again, I have managed to create a smooth curve in the finger groove for the mouse wheel.

In the evaluation section I have used the zebra stripes tool which displays the smoothness of surfaces. In the image below I have managed to smooth the transition of the upper housing of the mouse from the front section to back section successfully. 

In the image below I have now begun development on splitting the top housing of the mouse to create the very top housing piece. Using an offset of entities from the initial sketch I'm able to create this progress a lot easier.

In the image below I have created a surface extrude which will be the tool I use to split the housing of the piece apart to create two seperate pieces.

Moving back to the middle housing of the mouse, I'm now modelling the piece into a solid and then from there I will shell the piece appropriately to its dimension.

Using the split screens from my computer at home, I have used the presentation which Dan has produced for us in guidance to doing the surfacing. In the image below I'm currently detailing the lip of the very top piece of the housing of the mouse so that it fits flush with the middle housing.

In the image below I have extended the lip, then have cut it using the surface loft that I have created which you can see in the image above.

 Finally after hours of progress I have completed the main surface and dimensioning of the mouse. If you look closely you can see that I have successfully created the cap in between the top and middle housing of the mouse and have also produced a smooth transitioning between each housing piece.