Hi, Today I’m going to show you an easy way to quickly model in your side glass Trim using C_O_S projected onto the glass.
Often my students get into a mess trying to do this, but if you organize your workflow, put the glass and the trim on their own separate layers and then hide everything else away it suddenly gets a lot easier. The real secret though is to use your side glass surf and project all your trim crvs. onto it.
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Oh! in case you arre wondering what the inner most C_O_S is. It’s for a trim divide to create the obscuration zone
Work out all your dimensions for the Side Glass Trim
Create your projection curves in the Left view.Don’t forget once you have one profile curve you can quickly make the sister crv with the Offset tool. Also works for C_O_S.
Bring out surfaces from the side screen along the Y axis using the Flange tool
set to Y and Depth 5mm or whatever your model demands. I have use 10mm here to make things easier to see.
Pick all your side glass trim and assign it to a layer.
Assign your glass to a separate layer and after making them both invisible use >Object Display >”hide unselected” to hide everything else from the scene”
Build skin surfs. to complete the basic screen furniture.
At the tight corner I had to trim divide the draft surfs. so that I could build 1 small vertical skin surf without it going out of control on me. It’s the lilac hockey stick shaped surf. Above then I built the white Sq. using 2 deg crvs. and the same for the 2 radial sq. surfs. (green and purple)
Important Note:
Skin and Draft surfs. and a lot of weight to your file, as they create so many spans. At a more Pro. level if you have time, you use Sqauare and Bi-Rail surfs. set to Explicit Control to keep the surfs as light as you can
Here they are the 3 Sq surfs.
Important all surf. boundaries must have “G0”, if not you won’t be able to create the vital fillets. The fillets used here are R=2.5 mm
Usually I am not required to build side glass trim, but sometimes a designer wants all the detail on the model for presentation
to the decision makers within the company.
The method I have shown you is a quick way of Alias Studio modelling Side Glass furniture.
It’s a great method when the project is in its early syling stages and showing the e3xact production cross section is not demanded
When required to model to production spec.
I have to create accurate generation crvs and make each run of the trim individually and then it’s a far more demanding task, but this system is great for those of you learning Alias Studio Automotive Modelling and it’s also great when a Stylist wants to see the side glass trim in quickly to get the overall view of how the trim is helping to describe the 3D form of the vehicle.
Cheers
graham
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