At SolidWorks World in Orlando, Jon Hirschtick approached me with an idea. His idea was to get me together with some SW folks and talk about some functionality options. Maybe…
Category: surfacing
This is a project Jeff Mirisola sent to me from a company called Status Racing. They have an existing car seat, but didn’t have CAD data for the mold, so…
\n\n\n\nI didn”t create these images, but they represent two types modeling I would like to be able to do. The top car (Solstice) has smooth and flowing lines, without many…
We only had 6 entries for the shoe modeling challenge. Congrats to everyone who submitted stuff. As usual, I picked up a few ideas and saw lots of stuff I…
A recent article in the Catia Community newsletter (requires free login), written by Kathleen Maher of Jon Peddie Research discusses the SolidThinking software. She uses stock screen shots from the SolidThinking website, and talks…
Catia has a product called Imagine and Shape that sounds like a product I would like to work with. Maybe some of you have some functional experience with this and…
The purple surface and the blue surface clearly intersect, and intersect fully enough to do a mutual trim. But it simply won’t work. Cases like this normally are caused by…
Ok, you guys got me started on this. Now I can’t stop. I’ve been reading a book about Rhino 4.0. After writing my own book, suddenly the flaws in other…
One of the little secrets about creating complex shapes in SolidWorks is that they aren’t all as complicated as they look. The grille is one example of this. Once you…
The next part of the Model A to tackled are the running boards. I’m not particularly proud of the way they turned out. With each project you do, you learn…