Course Duration: 40 hour course minimum
Tuition: $2,200 US
Overview: Surfacing is a must in this competitive work environment. Helping you becoming an expert in this surfacing intensive is one of our missions in this class. This one week intensive is a workshop that comprises our two SolidWorks surfacing classes into a five day intensive study of surface modeling techniques. Learn surfacing with respect to ergonomics, plastics, and with respect to how light reflects off of forms. Engineers learn to work with industrial designers while industrial designers learn how to encourage engineers to understand form with respect to light reflections.
Projects: Based upon student interests or job requirements.
To Get A Job: Our training staff is made up of industrial designers and mechanical engineers who have extensive work history. We teach you how to design parts and assemblies and leave the last week to develop a project that can be used to gain employment. Stop by the Design Engine office for a visit.
Topics:
- 3D Curves and 2D curves with continuity
- Use composite curves for surfacing
- Split lines for building surface geometry
- Surface Loft and Surface Boundary functions
- Rhino or Alias Studio IGES and STEP imports
- Surface Offsets and Copy/Move functions
- Extend Surfaces, Surface Trims, and Knits
- Manage Draft on complex Sweeps
- Learn to create special tool curves and surfaces that will help manage surface geometry
- Sketch spine on surface
- Helix spiral curves
Discussions:
- Alias And Rhino modeling techniques and comparisons of using a parent child constrains modeler
- Use Mid-Surfaces as a technique used with top down design along with several top down design techniques available in SolidWorks
- 3 part boundary modeling techniques followed by using filled surface to resolve 3 part boundaries
- Discuss techniques with respect to bringing in 2D and 3D IGES geometry
- Discuss modeling techniques used in Alias Studio or Rhino geometry that we can use in SolidWorks surfacing
- Discuss overbuilding with respect to tools and functions inside SolidWorks
- Discuss a plan of attack and modern day surfacing technique
- Manage over molding with respect to tools we learned in the class
- Utilize freeform to accomplish the same form with out an internal curve structure
- Discuss using curve tools to manage light reflections
- Discuss G1/G2 continuity and light reflection with respect to product design and SolidWorks surfacing
- Discuss workflow with respect to capturing form (building a surface model from looking at a foam model)
- Discuss proving form by taking advantage of parent child relationships and maximizing equations in sketches
- Discuss with examples top down design using SolidWorks and surfacing
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