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The head of a guitar is the ‘command center’ for adjusting the tuning of a guitar and thus, needs to be accurately proportioned. Precision and constrained measurements along the body and neck profiles are vital for keeping strings ‘in tune’.
Now that we’ve got some of our most essential datum (aka ‘reference’) elements in place, we can start creating our sketches, starting with the body outline.
Okay kids, I hope you dusted off those sombreros, today we begin building our flamenco guitar in SolidWorks! Today we’ll use symmetry planes to accurately setup the measurements that drive the whole model. Trust me, by taking these steps now will majorly make your day when it comes time to fine-tune the dims! Kill it.
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!
Our good friend Josh Mings over at SolidSmack posted a really great tip for double-sided sweeps on SolidSmack last week, and it got us thinking about other ways of achieving the same thing. First we’ll take a look at Josh’s clever Selection Manager method, and then we’ll look at a simpler way (one simple feature!).
Our good friend Marcus asked how to add labels to a bike frame in modo, and we thought this would be a great opportunity for a cadjunkie double-header. In this, the first part, we’ll look at a surfacing technique for building a clean transition between tubular elements.
28 June 2011 Update: [/j_protect] My good friend Gustavo threw out an irresistible challenge via Twitter last week, so I’ve put together a brief response. Quoth G: gustojunk …I’ve made a ‘pipe-dream’ model, anyone can made these edits?: bit.ly/km1MJ6. The 3D file is here:bit.ly/lL32tH
cadjunkie member Andrew Ward posted a head-scratcher on the discussion board. We gave it some thought, and this was the best method we could find. What do you think? Is there a better way?
We’re back in the saddle! To kick things off, let’s take a quick look at a really common industrial design surfacing technique: using Constant Radius Face Fillets in SolidWorks.
Budding and fellow cadjunkies, you are in for a treat! Adam’s good friend and industrial design colleague Arvin Abadilla has offered to share a SolidWorks surfacing quick tip with us this week, and it’s a gem! (We’re particularly enthused about using the ‘split entities’ tool in Sketcher to isolate b-rep edges on the final trim.) [...]
cadjunkie Mick sent in this solid part file wondering how it might be approached in SolidWorks. We love our users here at cadjunkie, so we put together this quick video tutorial to walk through the basics. Have fun, Mick!
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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