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We’ve been doing a little ArchViz in modo lately, and this week we’ll continue our interior project by adding some thickness to the floor, and creating a few more places to put doors and windows. Use those statistics to your advantage when modeling, they’re invaluable for mesh cleanup!
Greetings cadjunkies! A little archi-viz for you this week, kicking off a series on the same. Build a dimensionally-correct room, and throw in some dimensionally-correct windows. Should be fun!
Greetings from Boston! I’m here at the SW 2012 press release, gettin’ inspired, connected, and all that jazz. The production pipeline is officially back on line, baby! We’ve got new SolidWorks, modo, and Rhino vids on the way in the next week or two, but while I was doing some prep work for the upcoming SolidWorks series I decided to record a bit of Sketchbook Designer along the way. Have fun, more soon!
See ya’ on the flip side, suckers! :)
“cicada” is one of my favorite words, mostly because of the way it is spelled.
If at first you don’t succeed, start over. Often I find it’s easier to re-build a model from scratch than to try to repair or modify an existing model. It can be frustrating, but often times the rebuild will be faster, more efficient, and better quality than the first time around. Be brave!
Now that we’ve imported CAD data, we’ll dig a little deeper into the power of the Shader Tree.
Once you get used to it, managing large CAD-imports in modo is actually pretty easy. In fact, I often have a corresponding modo file for every SolidWorks assembly, and can easily update the modo data to match any changes made in SolidWorks on-the-fly, even if the geometry has been animated!
Rhino is made by McNeal and Associates, located in Seattle. Rhino was originally a plug-in for AutoCAD, hence it’s AutoCAD-esque user interface.
Did you know that SolidWorks is owned by Dassault (makers of Catia), but that its mathematical core (a.k.a. “kernel”) is licensed from Dassault’s mortal enemy, Siemens?
Generally speaking, modo can read data from any application that can export an .obj, FBX, or, with a special script, STL file. This means you can export raw mesh data from virtually any 3D application and read it into modo. If you use Rhino or SolidWorks, however, life is much simpler, since modo reads these formats natively–no need for an intermediary file format.
As industrial designers, most of our modeling takes place in CAD packages like SolidWorks or Rhino. Fortunately modo reads both file types natively (with a few caviats), so todays class will be devoted to CAD import/export techniques.
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