Hi Matt, I mainly use Step 214 to export to Rhino. There are some options in the SW export settings which you may want to change, depending on whether you want SW to export curves as well. Hope that helps and thanks for watching! Cheers, Andrew

Hi there. I re-positioned and rotated the scan data to where I wanted it in Rhino. Much easier than in SW. Off the top of my head, what you mention should work though.

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Correct, it is watertight surface body that can be solidified.

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That is strange. I use this technique frequently to cap off corners and other areas where the primary surfaces leave a 2/3 sided hole. Here's a few videos where I have used this technique, except with a G0 boundary (same as the G1 centre line boundary the RH plane you mention in the nose cone). I guess the difference is in these videos, I do not use a ribbon to explicity define a draft angle on the G0 boundary. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mC2uhPYScY8.htmlsi=hbTqTQocL5-ASEKW ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yontOO7J3Io.htmlsi=NLhpusdbq2Lr5zBq Ruled surface can be used to make a ribbon, but sometimes the result can be a little average. I've had some success using an extruded 3D sketch (with draft) to make a ribbon surface, or if you don't mind a little variation in the draft, a loft, using two profile curves made in a 3D sketch, tangent to the relevant geometry, then a single edge/curve as the guide. If you are using a boundary surface to make the final patch surface, try playing around with the tangent influence a bit, as some times having 100% in the first direction and 0% in the second direction works, or vice versa where that creates ripples near the boundary.

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Very much agree, that an interesting topic of SW surface modeling. When to switch to solid ? mid part, copy surfaces to make temp solid and check volume for example or are there other ways to handle surface/solid rebuild stability issues ? Andrew, your thoughts would be highly welcome !

I only use 'insert part' for copying geometry into other parts. You can copy surfaces, solids, ref geometry etc. I guess with AAX/published geom it gets added into the master part file as a feature, so you dictate at which point geometry is captured and published? The problem with insert part is it just copies over whatever is left at the bottom of the master part feature tree, so if a surface body is referenced, then someone adds a fillet to the surface body, that fillet geometry gets sucked into the child parts, whether it is needed or not. Ways around this is to make a copy of the geometry that is to be referenced, further up the tree, then make sure it does not get cleaned up with a delete/keep body feature at the end of the model. This might sound weird, but I have worked on a master where it effectively needed a branch/fork with some deviations in the geometry that was being referenced. Be way easier if you can pick the geometry to be referenced at discrete points in the tree!

@@AndrewJacksonDesignStudio what about Save Bodies? then it saves only the part that you want. Ive done this with different configurations too. I also like Insert part when I want to import more info.

The downside to save bodies is it does not take any reference data with it which is why I use insert part. I guess you could create planar surfaces to act as planes, edges as axes, etc, but then you'd have to be on top of documentation in a multi user environment so others understood what was what.

All good! I needed a push to get back on the bike, so to speak :)

Good to hear! I've used this technique on a rowing hull, worked well.

Hi there, thanks for the suggestion. I can definitely see the value in a video that covers some of that. Might be some time away as my interests currently lie elsewhere.

Just something I've been dabbling with. Need to figure out how to make the camera move faster on straighter sections, then slow in corners.

I recommend Dr Logo. Much more productive software.

I was using an Ipad Pro but that's a bit clunky to use on the trail. I now have an iPhone 12 Pro, which was the first with the lidar on the front. I use 3D scanner app, which seems pretty good so far. Lots of viewing options as well as export options, so you can make a video within the app, or export it into other applications, like I have done here with the ride-through animation. apps.apple.com/us/app/3d-scanner-app/

How did it do it here? Trim? Split face and delete? Split body? I cannot remember. So many options.

Good question. If so, I bet it is not straight forward.

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Thanks for that, much appreciated!

Hi, I disagree, as there was experimentation and failures along the way. Which means it would be a very long video and not that informative.

@@AndrewJacksonDesignStudio I can understand this happened once you get perfect geometry then you may repeat method while recording, because for beginners they face error.

Yes, understandable from a beginner point of view. I'm not producing beginner content as youtube is flooded with it. I try and capture more advanced techniques that I may have figured out on client jobs, or exercises that I have set myself to improve my modelling skills. I pretty much always upload the part file, so people can roll through it and pick it apart. Thanks for watching.

@@AndrewJacksonDesignStudio I appreciate your work and effort to put in videos 🙂

Hi Ollie, not sure how I'd approach that mouse off the top of my head. DesignPartners (now PA Consulting Ireland) did use Creo but I know they also use SW as well but suspect Logitech is still Creo. Thanks for watching!

Hi, I posted a STEP export of the primary surfaces in this forum thread. I'm not releasing anything more detailled sorry. cadforum.net/viewtopic.php?p=30055&hilit=747#p30055

@JacksonDesignStudio Wow that was a fast response and thank you.

Waiting for renderings so killing time!

Hi there. I'm not sure what the question is?

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All good, thanks for checking it out.

Last I heard, Logitech still use Creo. When I was at Designpartners (now 20 years ago... feeling old) they designed quite a few of Logitech's products, all done in Wildfire at the time. Main exterior/offset surfaces handed over to Logitech ME dept (in Cork?) for ME modelling.

Hi there. Sketch 126 uses Plane 40. Plane 40 references two points and is rotated via an angle reference. I have no control over how the view is oriented in 3D space, when looking normal to the sketch plane. Solidworks sets that based on the plane references. Plane 40 is directly above Sketch 126 in the feature tree, if you are using flat tree view, which it is in the model I made available online. The video is not a tutorial! It'd be hours long, that is not something I am interested in making. The model should suffice if you have an intermediate level understanding of Solidworks. Cheers.

Thanks for watching. Yes, not really a beginner project but hopefully some of it was useful.

Hi there. Good question. The main reason is nurbs surfaces have 4 sides, so if you make a boundary surface with 3 sides, one of the edges is collapsed into a singularity. That can cause all sorts of headaches later on (surface wiggles, issues offsetting surface etc). Surface Fill in Solidworks will fit a larger/overbuilt 4 sided surface patch over a 3 sided hole which is then trimmed. It can be difficult to get good edge continuity using surface fills (even with constraint curves) plus they can randomly 'blow up' with spikes, dimples and wobbles appearing for no obvious reasons. These links have some great information that is relevant to SW as well. Cheers! help.autodesk.com/view/ALIAS/2022/ENU/?guid=GUID-2E98736D-0AE9-4021-A488-5D4522F20162 help.autodesk.com/view/ALIAS/2023/ENU/?guid=GUID-3E5274C3-FB89-4583-8087-A3E17DB849A1

@@AndrewJacksonDesignStudio Thx man! Love your attitude. You are really helping me (and I'm sure also a lot of other people) out. Keep up the great content! As an industrial design student I only really learn solid modelling at university and its hard to get good tutorials for surface modelling in Solidworks. Btw I'd find it super interesting to hear where you see the weaknesses and strenghts of Solidworks in comparison to Rhino. Thats a discussion I often have with colleagues ;) For me the main reason why I choose Solidworks is the Feature Tree and the ease of making changes afterwards. On the other hand if you plan on working as a freelance industrial designer you have to pay way more money for using Solidworks than Rhino. Maybe you could cover that in a future video

All good, pleased the videos are helping. Yeah there is lots of solids/intermediate content out there but not too much surfacing, and half of the surfacing content is people making patterned vases or impossible tables, which has little value for ID'ers trying to use SW in a production environment! I use both Rhino and SW, but mainly SW for commercial projects unless I need a super clean/lightweight surface, in which case that is usually needed for Grasshopper for patterning etc. I find it much easier to make changes to models in SW, even models that are well developed and feature heavy. You do need to structure the master models and child parts accordingly to make them robust enough. The down side is SW output can be average, with the SW analysis tools being too clumsy to spot some wrinkles/issues with surfaces and edge continuity. I have a macro to push selected surfaces into Rhino to use the zebra analysis there, as you can control the analysis mesh much more than you can in SW. It is possible to make much cleaner/lightweight surfaces in Rhino, as well as being able to point edit the surfaces, which is not possible in SW without using the freeform etc features, which are not a joy to use. With Rhino you have to have a strategy in place to deal with changes, which in my case, means layering off the model as things progress, so you can always go back and branch off an earlier iteration. Hope that helps! Cheers, AJ

Hi, I'm not targeting my content at absolute beginners. There's loads of content in that area already.