Autodesk Alias Studio Tutorial – Automotive Model Nearing Completion

Posted on March 5, 2010 by graham bullock B.Ed. Design and Tech

My Super Car Model is Nearing Completion

I could stop now and call it a day or I could continue adding detail such as grilles, finishing beads around screens and parting lines. Also I could Build a Rear Spoiler and put tread on the tyres.

What’s Been Done Today

I have built a half interior. This is used on exterior models in industry. A carpeted board is fitted inside the clay/fibre glass model at the waist line height and then half a steering wheel, the top part of the seats and the top section of the dash board are fitted. All this gives a more realistic looking model. Often models are built of clay over a wooden armature and later on in the project the screens are cut out and this dummy interior is fitted after which acrylic is fitted to form a realistic glass house.

Everything on the Model is Pulled Out of a Basic Planar surface.

Piggy back surfaces were built where the dash and seats would bee and then the components were formed by pulling a single CV using the Proportional Modification Control.

Wheels

I have revolved some simple wheels keeping the surfaces as light as possible, so that I can still toggle the model easily with the wheels displayed. If I make a set of complex wheels for this model, I’ll build them in another stage and then only import them when I want to do a full on rendering of the complete model ________________________________________________________________

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Autodesk Alias Studio Tutorial – A Halogen Headlamp

Posted on March 4, 2010 by graham bullock B.Ed. Design and Tech

Alias Studio Tutorial

Where to Start With A weird Shaped Headlamp Assy.

Please Note: This is not a pre-production modelled assy. It’s just a freehand model to fill the head lamp aperture, so that you can’t see inside the car body

I started with the apperture by building a small fillet flange around it normal to the aperture.

I built a Draught Flange Back from the fillet flange about 200mm deep. I then intersected the flange with a planar surf. and trimmed it all clean. Now I put a construction plane onto the planar surf, so I could see it in true view. That enabled me to build a square with bulging sides and project it onto the planar. I then built a piggy back square onto the planar surf 5 deg 2 by 5 deg.2. When I build a piggy back surface to be pulled out, I always add 2 rows of CV’s at each boundary of the sq.

Trim Out the Square which is underneath the piggy back square

Now I was ready to pull out the basic form of the main reflector using the Proportional Modification Control. After that I put 2 cylinders in to make the actual lights. I built a planar surf. to close the ends on both cylinders and then pulled smaller reflectors out from those. When I’d done that, I intersected the cylinders with the main reflector and trimmed it all back clean.

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