Surfacing Site Details

I’m getting a little excited about the release of the new surfacing site. It will be opened up for use in the month of October. While I’m ironing out some details and adding material, you’ll be able to subscribe for $20. This will go up once it’s fully released.

I’m calling the site Dezignstuff Episodes, and the “episodes” will be things like surfacing, plastics design, administration, settings, and so on. You’ll be able to subscribe to each episode individually or to the entire lot of what I have available.

To give you some idea of the content of the site, the Surfacing Episode itself will be book length. There are some 30 chapters that cover all of the surfacing features, and then follow up with pro-quality sample models demonstrating the techniques. Chapter titles include Splines and Curves, Boundary vs Loft, Complete Filleting, Sweeps, Uses of the Fill Surface, Body Management.

The only thing that really compares to this is my now decade old book Surfacing Bible. All the material on this site are new, no recycled text, images or models. There have been several developments in splines and fillets as well as hundreds of smaller improvements that directly effect this material since 2009.

There are several chapters where you watch me make models, making modeling decisions about which features to use, troubleshooting everyday problems, and working around bugs. These models include a Logo Emblem, Marching Trombone, Plastic Bottle, Personal Aircraft, Sports Car 1, Sports Car 2, Decorative Carved Chair, Splitting a Mold, Ladies Razor Handle, and more. You will learn more practical usage stuff from this type of information than any of the classes or books you’ve read before.

The material is not set up as a course or as a guide to pass some test. It’s a technical reference, taking you where the Help dare not, and other books really can’t. It has text and images of course, but also links to live SolidWorks data, and videos of me using the software while narrating what’s going on.

The models will be stuff you’ve seen around here the last couple of months, like aircraft, automobiles, furniture, musical instruments, consumer products, industrial products, and more. You’ll be able to apply the techniques shown to your mechanical design, technical surfacing, industrial design, medical products, consumer goods,

So bookmark this site. The announcement will be made in the next 2-3 weeks. Tell your friends, tell your coworkers, tell your user group members, tell your Facebook friends.