Lightly Chair by Noho. Solidworks Model Review 

All good Tony! Happy to be able to share some real stuff finally!

All good Schalk, hope to have another client project that I can share soon as well.

Thanks for watching Naeem!

Thanks for watching!

Hi Craig, I wanted to keep the video fairly short, so it really only skims the surface. To answer your questions, the design was pretty much there from an aesthetic and performance point of view. The tooling/draft/split strategy was still very much a WIP, especially the main actions and the implications on the lower front-to-back member. Without the actions, the design was quite different! There were constant changes happening all over the place. One example is when you have a hard draft constraint, say 2 deg either side of a part line. All geometry on either side must fall below that draft, there is no cheating it. That has quite a profound effect on surrounding geometry, especially if the surfaces leading into the split area are crowned. Sometimes we had to work backwards from these areas and adjust things accordingly. When building something like this, you can not foresee every possible permutation, so I focused on setting things up to be as flexible as possible for the design intent or constraints that were known about at that time. Good problem to have when using a parametric feature based modeller I guess. I guess that last paragraph applies to your second question to some degree. Fire away if you have any other questions. Cheers, AJ

Hi Mikolaj, good question! Roughly 220 hours, from start until the file going out for first tooling comment. That is just my time. On top of that there would have been others working on drawings for tooling, FEA, mouldflow etc. There were more sections of work after tooling comment, tool mods etc, but I cannot place a figure on that.

Yes I remember a few huddles in the corner with the others working on this. Drafting sections that are running nearly normal to the line of draw does interesting things!

From memory the designers and engineers already had the seat performance and form pretty well defined by the time I got involved. Any tweaks were fairly small.