Alias Class A surfacing – BMW Z4 Style CAD



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Alias Class A surfacing – BMW Z4 Style CADStudents once they have learned the exacting skills of Class A Surfacing, then need to take a job where they can model to this level either straight off the bat or from scan data. Scan data gives you a virtual former to model over, but the final skills in Class A modelling are free hand

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Pictured below is an Audi A5 Sportback built by one of my students who is now a Digital Sculptor for GM.

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Class “A” Surfacing the BMW Z4 Style Hood Top

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This comb is demonstrating that we have curvature not only at the surf boundaries, but it is consistent throughout the surface if you have curves like this your surfaces will have great highlights and your designer will like you

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A class A surfacer with a lot of experience who reads this site, kindly wrote in and suggested an even more elegant strategy for building this tricky hood top, so I built it. It takes a bit of bottle to take on big surfs that are doing a lot of work, but , you will get better highlights, if you can control them. Also with the right amount of experience it’s a quicker way to model.

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I went in here with the surf fillet tool.  It looks jagged because I haven’t trimmed beneath the fillet. You could build a good surf set like this, but I decided to show you the trickier washed out Free form Fillet approach

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So here it is there are 2 bi-rails and then 3 fillets for each ridge feature. As Stylists are forever changing the size and shape of fillets above the waist line, this method makes it easy to effect styling updates

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Looks like a piece of modern art. I think it’s beautiful

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It’s time to hit the coffee machine, so I ‘ve assigned a paint shader with clear coat and left it displaying on my monitor. Taking a first look at the surf set with particular attention to the front lip. All surfs must behave themselves by the time they wash out at the front and back edges

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If your curves don’t throw up a comb like this, then you don’t have curvature continuity G3. It’s no good settling for jagged curv combs, because your model will fail further along the line. If it ain’t right, fix it before you compound the problem

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OK so all trimmed out with Fillet Flange applied and healthy looking highlights

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I use the “Thermal Imager” curvature evaluation diagnostic all the time when doing Class A. A quick glance shows both the beautiful symmetry and the doggy punch on the nose

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