Solidworks Blends/Transitions
I've been putting together a series of videos on Youtube that cover different form blending and transition scenarios and some ways to solve them. The most recent is the headtube…
Modelling the Apple Magic Mouse form in Solidworks
A while back I modelled the Magic Mouse in Rhino as a learning exercise. I decided it'd be a good exercise to also model the main form in Solidworks and…
How to create a curved speaker mesh in Solidworks
This video covers my exploration of creating a curved mesh. Instead of creating a flat mesh and then deforming that, I created a tool to control the wires, then deformed…
Create a variable pitch pattern using the deform tool in Solidworks
In my previous two videos I had been trying to figure out a reliable and fairly straight forward way of using a sketch 'graph' to control the pitch of a…
747-121 N7470 Rendering and Modelling
Boeing 747-121 CAD Sculpting and Rendering Exercise
This is a personal project, completed both as a modelling challenge and also as a nod to one of the most beautiful aircraft ever designed. The 747-121 N7470 was the…
Solidworks: Modelling a Proctor Model 1481 Toaster
I created this model after being given the challenge by a viewer of my Solidworks videos. This is not a tutorial as such, as I wanted to keep the video…
Solidworks Tutorial: Modelling a spoon
This tutorial shows one of the many ways to model a spoon. In the tutorial I cover using boundary surfaces, creating offset surfaces and also variable offset surfaces between thickness…
CAD Sculpting Exercise in Rhino 5
Kartell ‘Dr Yes’ Chair CAD Sculpting Exercise
For the 6th week of 'lock down' in New Zealand, I selected the Dr Yes Chair by Philippe Starck as the subject of my CAD sculpting exercise. This is the…
CAD Sculpting Exercise in Rhino 5
Driade Soft Egg Chair CAD Sculpting Exercise
For the 4/5th week of 'lock down' in New Zealand, I chose the Soft Egg Chair by Philippe Starck as the subject of my CAD sculpting exercise. I thought this…
CAD Sculpting Exercise in Rhino 5
Magis Easy Chair CAD Sculpting Exercise
For the fourth week of 'lock down' in New Zealand, I chose the Easy Chair by Jerszy Seymour as the subject of my CAD sculpting exercise. There are no flat…