Posted by Bob Sprague on February 19, 2001 at 22:07:11:In Reply to: Re: Machined joy posted by ken kuhlman on February 19, 2001 at 11:25:14:
1) Overall elevations and plans drawn in PowerCADD
2) Draw sections through plastic seat, Adjust front lip drop.
3) Blend sections of plastic back rest arc from top to bottom in PC
Draw separate plan of rim of backrest.
3) Change all curves to polygons in PC.
4) Save all as DW PICT
5) Setup DW file with phases: LAYOUT, BACK, BACK RIM, TUBES, SEAT
6) Tilt up tube section circles and layout at critical points along tube elevation
do elevation and plan portions separately and then send to lofting machine.
7) Set blended seat sections at elevations along seat back , tilting as appropriate. Send to lofting machine,
8) Space out seat sections in plan. Send to lofting machine.
9) Layout varying widths of seat rim sections along plan layout, tilt and tweak
as necessary. Send to lofting machine
10) Assemble parts and tweak to fit. Do this in rotated elevation, plan, front and sde views.
11) Tweak again, and again. Repeatedly rotate elements around and up and down to get a sense of shape in wire frame vs lights and textures.
12) Finally create material parameterd for Polypropoline elements for DW Prefs.
13) From DW Lights and textures, save as 3D DXF file.
14) Open in ArtLantis, use shaders to finesse transparency and materials.
15) Save as jpeg file.
16) Open in PHOTOSHOP 6. Crop, adjust brightness, sharpness and you see what I displayed.STEP 11 and 12 are the real time consumers, as you have to space jump to many vertices and move them in hor and ver planes
SAVE MANY TIMES!
GOT IT!
BOB
BOB