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Last week we built a classic class-a surface called a “fading crease” in SolidWorks, and this week we’ll be taking that a few steps forward by adding wheel surrounds on the fenders. From here we’re going to begin looking at best practices for file organization within your SolidWorks part files.
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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. |
Hey Adam,
During the tutorial you used Curvature Continuous (CC) as a constraint for one of the boundary surfaces. To my (admittedly surfacing newbie) eyes, there’s not a drastic difference between a tangency and CC constraint even after checking with the zebra stripes and curvature combs.
Is there supposed to be much of a difference between the two or they do have their own particular uses when it comes to using them? I always figured tangency was used for a straight/linear surface while curvature is used when the surface is curved, but there’s never an obvious difference.
Great stuff as always.
Hi Eamonn!
This video is getting pretty old, but it’s still a decent introduction to continuity types:
http://cadjunkie.com/1113/tutorials_continuity-101/
http://cadjunkie.com/1117/tutorials_continuity-102-analysis/
In this particular case there is a very low likelihood that the surface in question would be visually different as a C2 surface, but it could make a difference in the success or failure of downstream features. This is a bigger topic that perhaps we’ll discuss more in the future.
Adam