So you’ve decided you want to create digital 3D models. You might be an aspiring movie special effects guru, industrial designer, architect, or mechanical engineer. Maybe you’re wanting to create photo-realistic images of product design ideas, or maybe you want to use 3D Computer Aided Design (CAD) to control a Computer Numeric Controlled (CNC) milling [...]
I use an iMac running Windows Vista via Bootcamp to do the majority of my CAD work. It all works great, except that it makes data very complex to access, and even more difficult to back up. I am relatively obsessive about backing up my work, so I have a system in place that allows [...]
I recently had the ‘pleasure’ of introducing my incredulous students to my [admittedly cryptic] file naming conventions, and file organization practices. I picked many of them up from my old boss and friend Gustavo Fontana, and I’ve adapted them somewhat to my personal taste.
So now that you know what continuity is, you’ll want to know how to analyze the continuity of your curves and surfaces in your CAD system. Each system has its own specialized tools, but there are a few common ones that are available in basically every CAD package: porcupine (aka “Curvature Combs”), Zebra, and color [...]
I’d wager that 95% of CAD users don’t know what “Curvature” continuity really is in the mathematical sense, much less how it makes sense in the broader context of surfacing. Here we’ll look at the basic principles of “continuity”, and use these principles as the basis for a longer-term study on class a surfacing continuity. [...]
Some of you might not know what I’m talking about when I ramble on about “conics” in CAD. In this short video, I’ll explain what conics are, and the basic mathematical and practical ideas that underpin their use in CAD. Sound like a party? Oh yeah, baby. It’s geek-out time.
“Brand n. & v. • n. … • v. … 3 impress unforgettably on one’s mind.” – The Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus, 1996 American Edition If you were in Thailand and were offered one of the mysterious drinks at right, what would you expect? Surely the can would not actually be very mysterious at all, [...]
So you saw that flashy new job ad on Coroflot, and you’re all ready to apply. What do you do now? It wasn’t all that long ago that I was applying for my own first job, and I can well remember well how mysterious the whole thing seems at first. Who reads these things? What [...]
Note: This post is out of date, and it may no longer reflect cadjunkie’s current recommendations. A little overview of my process.
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