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Today we’ll use SolidWorks to take a look at a classic Class-A automotive surfacing technique: the fading crease. This is the simplest version of the automotive crease–these things can get wicked complicated in practical application–but it’s an extremely versatile technique. In the future we’ll build on this knowledge.
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Adam O'Hern is an industrial design consultant specializing in visual brand languages, and has designed products ranging from laptops to power tools, classroom toys to bathroom fixtures, and robots to lint rollers. He has published with 3DWorld Magazine, CGTuts+, and Luxology, and works with Josh Mings of SolidSmack.com on EngineerVsDesigner.com. |
So what if I want to run a fillet along the edge where the two surfaces meet?
You should be able to use the fillet tool, bearing in mind that a rolling-ball type fillet will disappear completely when the surfaces are tangent. An alternative might be a constant-width face fillet, or a good old fashioned sweep-a-tube-along-the-edge-trim-and-boundary-between manual fillet :)
yay new solidworks vid!
There’s more where that came from!
Thanks for finally throwing a morsel to us old SW devotees. We though we’d completely lost you to the younger, sexier, Modo. Is there anything we should know about the magically appearing sketch 5 at 6:15 in the video?
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Whoops! :) Little editing mistake there, sorry! It’s just a three-point arc.
I haven’t forgotten about you, Micr0! There’s more on the way!
Adam
Very useful!
I love it!
Thanks Adam