Solidworks Tutorial: Surface modelling a three sided surface.
A short tutorial that covers building a three sided surface from two 4 sided surfaces, including a trimmed boundary. If you will be offsetting surfaces to create a plastic part,…
Solidworks tutorial: surface modelling a domed button.
Here's a Solidworks surfacing tutorial that demonstrates one way to create a domed button, using offset surfaces to control boundaries and also using the fill surface feature. This modelling technique…
Testing B2M from Allegorithmic to create displacement and other maps
60’s interior
I've been testing out Bitmap to Material from Allegorithmic, so what better way to test than some lovely stone veneer from the 60's... I need to figure out a shag…
Modelling a pillowed surface in Solidworks. Similar to an old Iphone or a Macbook top
Here is my latest tutorial; modelling a pillowed surface in Solidworks. The mid section of the form is flat, with a pillowed surface running down to an edge, like a…
Modelling a nose cone in Solidworks
Here's another quick Solidworks tutorial that covers modelling a nose cone type model. This type of model is often built of two or three sided surfaces which is not ideal…
Solidworks tutorials
I'm having a go at creating some surfacing tutorials for Solidworks. So far I have created two quick tutorials; one covers blending between surfaces that change from convex to concave,…
Folding Cooktop Concept ~2002
Folding cooktop concept and animation from 2002. This is a redesign of an earlier concept from design school in 1998. I just found the project in my archives, thought it…
Blast from the past
I just found my entry to the very first Octane render competition in 2010. The software was pretty much an alpha release at the time, you couldn't save your work…
Methven Tūroa
Congratulations to Methven who have had their Tūroa range get into the finals of this year's Best Awards. Renderings produced by AJDS.
Landscape flyby
For ten years I have been a member of a volunteer group that advocates and builds new multi-use trails in Wellington, New Zealand. Recently the Brooklyn Trail Builders had the…