Alias Tutorial – “How to Model the A Pillar Alias” – Highlighting


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Fast Track Full Pro. “One to One” Course with weekly reviews and coaching 250 Euros (USD. 300 approx. Nov. 2011) per month. One to One Private tuition. You will receive specific geometry and meshes and modeling from me personally where required, to help you to complete your exteriors quickly to an Industry entry level standard. This means a bigger investment, but once in an Alias modeling job you will get back what you invested many times over and be able to work anywhere in the world

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Much of my work these days, is as a Highlighting Consultant

I get asked a lot by Automotive companies either to improve the highlights

on a particular model or to give courses to their experienced staff on highlighting skills. A few months ago I was asked if I wanted to go to India and train, modeling staff for one of the biggest manufacturers in the world Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.

I use the Dynamic Iso Shader with Multi Stripes and Visual Curves,

as my Evaluation tool of choice and I teach modelers who need to learn how to control highlights, how to Evaluate their model with this tool. I find that many really good modelers don’t use this tool at all, but most modelers doing my highlighting course, learn to almost totally rely on it

Why is the A Pillar so difficult get right, with perfect highlights?

If you are a Modeling Manager you will know that you can’t give a fully blended A Pillar to just antbody and that you know who the experienced guys/galls are who can deliver a good model of this complex area. Here is just one of several solutions used to create the A Pillar Blend.  There are many things that can make this transitional surface set fail and here are just a few :

1- Foundation Surface: Has patch boundaries and or surface features that interfere with the formation of the blend

2- Foundation srface has the wrong xsec cut on X, to create an apropriately placed inflexion point (on this model the inflexion point from the base surf. to the back part of the blend occurs at the foot of the blend (1). Where the wide black stripe meets the wide red stripe) This ensures that the inflexion point is not within the blend, causing a hump and not occuring before the blend causing sinking within the blend. So the xsect of the foundation surf must be carefully worked out in conjunction with the chordal legth of the blend, so that the inflexion point at the foot of the blend (right of pic.) will occur where the blend meets base srf.

3- The height of the blend (How high up it is on the A Pillar) is critical to a smooth blend with no “sinking” of “humping”

4- The size of the foot of the blend is critical

Curves Drive The Transition Surfaces

Your blend can only ever be as good as your curves

Above:

Point 1: Is where she has chosen to create the inflexion point. This ensures that blend does not sink (dip) or have a high spot (hump) within it

Point A’ the boundary is too low. The modler has forced G2, but because the curve was too flat (too high) she has bad topology within the 2 adjacent patches

Above: We see again that curve A’ is too flat and is creating bad highlights. B’ the curve is slightly flat  and is causing a wobble in the highlight.

Visual Curves:

Left#1 shows a slight flat in the surface (1) and needs a bit of direct modeling.

Left#2 Is Perfect

Left#3 is saying. “No lunch break for us today”

Summary;

Complex transitional areas of an exterior are often really difficult to get right with perfect highlights.  

Usually these surface sets are not built straight off the bat, but are developed fron sacraficial surfaces. It is not easy to gain the knowledge required to model such surfaces, as very often the guys that are really good at it and therefore are practically always in work are reluctant to share these valuable skills with junior modelers.

Sorted!

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Info. on Courses:

“Course #1”.

6 Months website access to all website based video tutorials, 167 Euros (200 USD equivalent Nov.2011)

“Course #2”.

167 Euros (200 USD equivalent Nov.2011) per month. You get your .wire reviewed by me every 15 days and you will receive : feedback, instruction, tips and advice from me personally. Access to all videos including my ” Private Student Training Videos”. You will build at least 3 complete automotive exteriors. The course also includes an intensive Reverse Engineering section, which required by most employers.

“Course #3”.

Fast Track Full Pro. “One to One” Course with weekly reviews and coaching 250 Euros (USD. 300 approx. Nov. 2011) per month. One to One Private tuition. You will receive specific geometry and meshes and modeling from me personally where required, to help you to complete your exteriors quickly to an Industry entry level standard. This means a bigger investment, but once in an Alias modeling job you will get back what you invested many times over and be able to work anywhere in the world

For more info,

Just register on my website and I’ll send you all the details
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USA:

If you are in the USA, just register and login, then go to Profile and you can pay your subscription with your US credit card. Absolutely no extra charges for currency conversion.

Regards

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Thinking about upping that degree? please, think twice.

Consider the situation: you have a degree 3×3 surface and you decide you need more cv’s to work with, so you go to that control panel and reach out to up that degree.

That is perfectly alright, but think twice, do you really need that extra row of cv’s? consider the mathematics at work for a second.

(IMAGES COURTESY WIKIPEDIA)

This is a degree 2 curve

It interpolates between the three control vertices. At the start and end it is absolute so it touches, while the middle cv acts like a magnet influencing the curve towards it.

As we know the middle cv’s of bezier/nurbs geometry do not lie on the surface or curve, they hover over like the center-of-mass of the old “ducks” used before the computer. This is, without doubt, one of the trickiest parts of nurbs/bezier modeling.
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Alias Modeling for a TC2000 Team in Argentina – part 4

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I am busier than ever these days

with contract modeling, teaching one to one students from all 5 continents and now of course my brand new website has gone live and it is possible to learn Alias Automotive to a professional level for the lowest rate on the planet.

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

Full HD video, just click the picture below

I am now putting some of my tutorials on YouTube, so whilst you’re there you may wish to check them out. There’s a full tutorial on how to create a Ball Corner to Class A Surfacing, Catia V5 spec.

 

how to build a car

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To see just how quickly you can learn Automotive Modeling, with a Pro. Alias Trainer to help you

 

NURBS FROM MESH VIDEO click here

For student’s who have the objective of finding a CAD job in the near future, I still teach One to One students and all of these students get Automotive Modeling or Design/Modeling jobs, so it’s a great investment to make.

Check-Out my Customer Feedback,

Many of my students make it to the top and succeed in becoming pro. Alias Digital Modelers. The hourly rate is very high and there are vacancies in UK. France, Germany, USA, Brazil etc.

On my website I teach you how to build the models you need to get accepted at interview. Why not take a look?

Cheers

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My New Website is now live!

Fees: Accsess to all my 200+ videos, including the complete Audi A5 Sportback, my Virrage concept car and many other projects

228$ /167 Euros per month (599$ /440 € 3 months/ 1899$ /1400 € anual)

For really serious Alias students,

who wish to learn pro. modeling skills in a condensed time frame, I also run “One to One” Internet Coaching at a cost of

339$ / 250 Euros pcm.

I can only take a maximum of 5 students at any one time. I tech all levels right up to Post Graduates and Alias modelers in their first year in Industry. I have never had a private student fail to get an Alias Automotive job (Companies include GM, Lotus, Opel, Audi Seat etc. )

If you wish to apply for a place, please email me with all your details.

Kind Regards

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CAD Modeling for Championship Touring Cars in the field (Argentina)

By Ricci Walker

(edited by graham bullock)

Now I would like to talk about modeling airboxes and carbon fiber.

This Air Box I had to model at short notice like 2 hours on several occaisions
Now back to frontal area, mechanically speaking air is drawn into the engine via the airbox which is connected to the engine, the size is fixed by the regulations; however there is a bonus that standard road cars remove called the ram air effect, the process where moving award forces extra air into the engine enhancing the air/fuel mixture, this is power for free if the ecu (engine control unit) is mapable. The downsides are air flow restriction when closely following the car in front. 
By close I mean less than a meter. The aero buffeting in this situation causes a low pressure zone in front of the air intake forming a partial vacuum and drawing hot air into the intake reducing power, acceleration, and winning. Conversely F1 cars have the intakes above the drivers head in unrestricted airflow no matter how close they follow each other.
So the clever bit is to determine the amount of air needed at any one time and adjust the size of the air intake dynamically. Problem!  You are not allowed moveable aerodynamic aids; so enter the grey area of the sport. We did a bunch of calculations that highlighted the volume of air in the critical power areas and then added 6/1/2 for good measure we designed an air box to have a reserve volume of air at lower speeds where the engine needed more air and less pressure and then reduced the volume at higher speeds where ram effect takes over and the volumetric efficiency increases naturally, sort of a turbo boost.
The trick is to have an air box that automatically increases the volume and streamlines the flow entering the manifold at low speeds, whilst reducing the volume and increasing the flow at high speeds. This was cleverly achieved by using ram air to push an internal spring loaded flap across making the air box smaller and conversely as the air speed reduced the pressure on the flap subsided and the volume increased

proportionately. This modification only increased the hip by 5 but the reduced drag, increased torque due to smaller intake size, equated to pole position in the next three races. The air box was effectively a sealed carbon fiber box with the clever bit out of sight and out of mind, only total destruction would reveal its secrets……..and the nob-head Brazilian driver forgetting to “just get pole” and not prove to the competitors he’s god like status at the wheel. We were investigated and told to remove whatever it was we did not have hidden from view. One of many such investigations due to the driver having no restraint and an ego larger than a mountain range in Switzerland!
The grey areas of the sport are tweaked by all the teams all of the time so staying ahead of the pack was a constant challenge, The teams that had in-house production facilities did have an advantage so having the equipment and the chaps to use it was significant in staying competitive, Unlike making a part in the f1 world which is akin to playing chess against a super computer.
The design for the air box was relatively simple and modeled in Alias on a laptop with solely the integrated mouse,  in a morning. This was exported as an IGES file and sent to a design/fab. shop and lots of overdue and very important prototype work was dropped like a stone, as we offered to pay 3 times the going rate to queue jump our air-box. The boss inumerated many moral objections for not doing the underhanded move we were suggesting. He then asked for another 10% on top for El Niño and grabbed the cash. My instructions were to stick to this guy like a limpit and not leave his side till I had the part in my hand.

Within an hour he had milled the posive from a block of plastic and an hour after that the moulds were being fast cured, beneath IR lamps. I cringed at the thought of all that distortion causing deviation from my CAD constr. prefs. and armed With one phrase (eco la puta \ (phonetic))( son of a bitch) and no actual linguistic skills on my side, , it was amazing with only hand gestures, brilliant special awareness two people could create a living breathing object with no real verbal communication. By 6 pm that day a working GRP (glass fiber) mockup was being fitted to the car and by the afternoon of the next day a full carbon layup was looking at me. Unheard of and astounding, epically as they had built their own autoclaves (heated vacuum oven) out of old cookers and a de-compression chamber. A week later the air box was in France being tested on the engine denominator at “PIPO” the suppliers of the Peugeot world rally teams.

The gains were not mind blowing however they were a step in the right direction for very little cost on my part anyhow?  I must praise the very talented and resourceful chaps for this and many other extraordinary feats of engineering that made me proud to be part of the team.

Later on that month I introduced them to recorded video footage of the suspension dynamics with a miniature camera and on-board recorder. When they saw the footage it was like watching children around a Christmas tree and the understanding they had of tyre dynamics was about to rock their world and open a new can of chocolate coated worms……….Also whilst Argentina rebelled and burnt its buildings and looted the banks the racing held the people together?

Typical car from the pack


The race series is still active but I have just learnt my old boss is retiring at the end of this month so I wish him luck in his retirement to enjoy time with his neglected family…..

Good luck Edgardo Fernández

 http://www.tc2000.com.ar/

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By Ricci Walker

(edited by graham bullock)

I am busier than ever these days

with contract modeling, teaching one to one students from all 5 continents and now of course my brand new website has gone live and it is possible to learn Alias Automotive to a professional level for the lowest rate on the planet.

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

Full HD video, just click the picture below

I am now putting some of my tutorials on YouTube, so whilst you’re there you may wish to check them out. There’s a full tutorial on how to create a Ball Corner to Class A Surfacing, Catia V5 spec.

how to build a car

Click Here for Videos

To see just how quickly you can learn Automotive Modeling, with a Pro. Alias Trainer to help you

NURBS FROM MESH VIDEO click here

Alias Modeling for a TC2000 Team in Argentina – part 3

CAD Modeling for Championship Touring Cars in the field (Argentina)

By Ricci Walker

(edited by graham bullock)

Now I would like to talk about modeling airboxes and carbon fiber.

This Air Box I had to model at short notice like 2 hours on several occaisions

 

My job was to bring a fresh approach to EF Racing whether by process or technology,

so one day sat with the teams Alias Modeler talking about what he had designed the subject of frontal area sprung forth, as it does, more precisely the regulations that govern how much of the air intake was allowed to be above and below the vehicles horizontal midline. If you are going to model an air box for rapid prototyping you need to talk with the guy that’s going to model the aperture in the front end that the air box is going to fit to. Hed is also changing his front end all the time.

For those that are not familiar with motor racing

a set of rules are drawn up for all teams to abide by  allowing an equal playing field whilst using different makes shapes and sizes of production cars, i.e., ford, Peugeot, Honda, etc.  One of the fairest ways to level the playing field is to limit the engine size and air intake size. This allows plenty of scope to be creative within the boundaries of the legislation however it stops teams chucking sheds loads of money at quick fixes for getting ahead of the competitors.  Many of the manufacture backed teams have been running for years and so the development process has undergone large advances for little initial financial input to very small gains for huge amounts of money, and now to gain a hundredth of a second is akin to moving a Small Mountain from Chili to London.

The teams now try to buy people who can make a difference;

i.e. me from F1, and others from the world rally teams. For example my team purchased a production car, shipped it to “MIRA” the UK’s only independent wind tunnel facility to get full airflow analysis data. This cost tens of thousands and then gave the new vehicle away because it was cheaper than shipping it back to Argentina.

Alias and Catia modelers are always kept busy, modeling the underbody

sump guarde and the milled suspension brackets you can see here, so you can see motor racing is about being creative and adaptable whilst adhering to the regulations. To the casual observer motor racing is black and White but really its grey as the boundaries blur between what the governing body can see and what they are allowed to see. This is the most exciting aspect of the sport for me and really stimulates the creativity glands.

Now back to frontal area, mechanically speaking air is drawn into the engine via the air box which is connected to the engine, the size is fixed by the regulations; however there is a bonus that standard road cars remove called the ram air effect, the process where moving forward forces extra air into the engine enhancing the air/fuel mixture, this is power for free if the ecu (engine control unit) is mapable. The downsides are air flow restriction when closely following the car in front.

By Ricci Walker

(edited by graham bullock)
To be continued——————————–

Come an learn Alias or Boost your current Alias skills to FULL Pro. Automotive entry level

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I am busier than ever these days

with contract modeling, teaching one to one students from all 5 continents and now of course my brand new website has gone live and it is possible to learn Alias Automotive to a professional level for the lowest rate on the planet.

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

Full HD video, just click the picture below

I am now putting some of my tutorials on YouTube, so whilst you’re there you may wish to check them out. There’s a full tutorial on how to create a Ball Corner to Class A Surfacing, Catia V5 spec.

 

how to build a car

Click Here for Videos

To see just how quickly you can learn Automotive Modeling, with a Pro. Alias Trainer to help you

 

NURBS FROM MESH VIDEO click here

For student’s who have the objective of finding a CAD job in the near future, I still teach One to One students and all of these students get Automotive Modeling or Design/Modeling jobs, so it’s a great investment to make.

Check-Out my Customer Feedback,

Many of my students make it to the top and succeed in becoming pro. Alias Digital Modelers. The hourly rate is very high and there are vacancies in UK. France, Germany, USA, Brazil etc.

On my website I teach you how to build the models you need to get accepted at interview. Why not take a look?

Cheers

graham bullock

My New Website is now live!

Fees: Accsess to all my 200+ videos, including the complete Audi A5 Sportback, my Virrage concept car and many other projects

228$ /167 Euros per month (599$ /440 € 3 months/ 1899$ /1400 € anual)

For really serious Alias students,

who wish to learn pro. modeling skills in a condensed time frame, I also run “One to One” Internet Coaching at a cost of

339$ / 250 Euros pcm.

I can only take a maximum of 5 students at any one time. I tech all levels right up to Post Graduates and Alias modelers in their first year in Industry. I have never had a private student fail to get an Alias Automotive job (Companies include GM, Lotus, Opel, Audi Seat etc. )

If you wish to apply for a place, please email me with all your details.

Kind Regards

graham bullock B.Ed. Des & Tech.


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Alias Modeling for a TC2000 Team in Argentina – part 2

The championship there is called “TC2000”

CAD Modeling for Championship Touring Cars in the field (Argentina)

By Ricci Walker

(edited by graham bullock)

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Cont’d.———and its similar to British touring car but on steroids, each car was valued at $3 million and they had three of them, backed by Peugeot, and run by professional petrol heads, (Argentina branch) petrol head = drink neat petrol followed by burning Sambuca, eat raw car tyres and have loads of tattoos.

Almost all of the 30 cars were factory backed and my team had the resources of the world rally champions at the time to call upon, if this was a cake it would be a fruit cake with every “e” number going.

I was in heaven except I couldn’t Understand a dam word they said, it sounded like badly fitting dentures that spat everywhere? The language is Spanish or a very close representation of Spanish but they call it “Castilian”, it’s a dialect of Catalunia in Spain and very proud of it too. Speaking of proud, I know of no nation as proud as the Argentinians, it makes for very exciting racing and football on and off of the track. I did meet the legendary Diego Maradona, I lived 100m from his house and the stories I could tell you……!

The wait at the airport started badly, I was at one end and the almost english speaking team member was at the other, so three hours later the team gofer and I were on the open road getting to know each other. Within an hour of being in the capital Buenos Aires, we had seen three accidents, a donkey/cart combo on the motorway and a lorry destroying a barrier at a toll booth.
No one was badly hurt in any of the  accidents, but they were hilarious incidents . It started as two very old American station wagons  collided at the junction of general belgrano and September the 11th Avenue. We had just entered and a dull thud could be heard followed by a huge plume of dust and steam erupting from the impact site. it engulfed the whole junction, And to give you an idea of the crash  image.  Six lanes converging from four directions on this one point in time and space, all with unwritten rules about negotiating the traffic.  Both vehicles were at least 20 years old and held together with wire, so as they impacted body panels were spread over several 100 metres.

By Ricci Walker

(edited by graham bullock)
To be continued——————————–

Come an learn Alias or Boost your current Alias skills to FULL Pro. Automotive entry level

www.learningalias.co.uk


I am busier than ever these days

with contract modeling, teaching one to one students from all 5 continents and now of course my brand new website has gone live and it is possible to learn Alias Automotive to a professional level for the lowest rate on the planet.

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

Full HD video, just click the picture below

I am now putting some of my tutorials on YouTube, so whilst you’re there you may wish to check them out. There’s a full tutorial on how to create a Ball Corner to Class A Surfacing, Catia V5 spec.

 

how to build a car

Click Here for Videos

To see just how quickly you can learn Automotive Modeling, with a Pro. Alias Trainer to help you

 

NURBS FROM MESH VIDEO click here

For student’s who have the objective of finding a CAD job in the near future, I still teach One to One students and all of these students get Automotive Modeling or Design/Modeling jobs, so it’s a great investment to make.

Check-Out my Customer Feedback,

Many of my students make it to the top and succeed in becoming pro. Alias Digital Modelers. The hourly rate is very high and there are vacancies in UK. France, Germany, USA, Brazil etc.

On my website I teach you how to build the models you need to get accepted at interview. Why not take a look?

Cheers

graham bullock

My New Website is now live!

Fees: Accsess to all my 200+ videos, including the complete Audi A5 Sportback, my Virrage concept car and many other projects

228$ /167 Euros per month (599$ /440 € 3 months/ 1899$ /1400 € anual)

For really serious Alias students,

who wish to learn pro. modeling skills in a condensed time frame, I also run “One to One” Internet Coaching at a cost of

339$ / 250 Euros pcm.

I can only take a maximum of 5 students at any one time. I tech all levels right up to Post Graduates and Alias modelers in their first year in Industry. I have never had a private student fail to get an Alias Automotive job (Companies include GM, Lotus, Opel, Audi Seat etc. )

If you wish to apply for a place, please email me with all your details.

Kind Regards

graham bullock B.Ed. Des & Tech.


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Alias Modeling for a TC2000 Team in Argentina – part 1

By Ricci Walker

(edited by graham bullock)

 Stuck in a Snow Globe

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Alias Designing in the field

is so remote from the cozy space in front of the computer, you would say they are not related especially in large organisations. The process to make a “radical new component assy.” is similar to predicting the next eruption of an extinct volcano; it has been known to happen; however it is rare.

Progressing your own idea is sometimes painful, time consuming with frustration as a side dish.

It starts with an idea that ooze’s into life

then meets “the powers that be” that do the financial and “do we need it” thing, due diligence they like to call it! Then if all the boxes get ticked the project now starts gathering forward momentum. The “New Bit” has a virtual life, a bunch of paper allocated to keep it warm at night and confirmation that it’s alive!
This brings me nicely to Argentina and a positive outcome. Argentina is not synonymous with motorsport or rare volcanic eruptions, but fantastic beef and crazy footballers so when I was asked to go there as a Race Engineer/Aerodynamicist/Alias Designer for the most highly funded touring car team in the world I said si, si, si (not that I knew what that meant) I jumped in the deep end and swum to the bank, mostly because they were paying me well. I had no hesitation until the plane landed, I forgot I spoke zero Spanish and it was 35 degrees in the shade and that my country had recently fought them in the Falklands War.

by Ricci Walker. to be continued—————————

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250 Euros (USD. 339 approx. Nov. 2011) per month. One to One Private tuition with weekly reviews of your .wire. You will receive specific geometry and meshes and modeling from me personally where required, to help you to complete your exteriors quickly to an Industry entry level standard. This means a bigger investment, but once in an Alias modeling job you will get back what you invested many times over and be able to work anywhere in the world

For more info,

Just register on my website and I’ll send you all the details
www.learningalias.co.uk

USA:

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Regards

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The life of an Alias Modeler in a real work processes starts with understanding the designer demands and understanding his/hers interpretation of the object that can be a vehicle or other industrial design project.

It starts with a briefing , sketching and then the Modeling work starts . There will be a number of modelers assigned to a project, each modeler making a different section of the vehicle.

Normally it is made with Class B surfaces, to achieve a quick understanding of the volume of the project. This shows the designer how the volume will look and most important, how the highlights will run on the surfaces.

This stage can take a few weeks until the designer gives his/her go ahead and passes the data to the clay department to make a physical scaled model.

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The clay model is being scanned so the data will pass again for the Alias Modelers as a Mesh (Reverse Engineering) file  to make the  needed adjustments for the model, to change some design elements that in the “real” model don’t look enough to suit the designer’s requirements.

These processes will continue until the designer and Chief Designer, are finally convinced that this stage has been achieved .

After the head of the Design department gives the OK. to continue to the next stage the Class A modelers come into action and create the final model for the Clay department to make a full scale model (1:1 clay model).
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With the current trend in automotive design,

more sharp lines are introduced into the bodies of our cars. They go by the names character line, crease line or feature line.

These represent an interesting challenge to the technical surfacers, primarily how the two slab surfacesets meet at the crease. Not just how they meet positionally, which literally forms the crease but also largely defined by the tangent going into the sharp crease. This will control the quality of the small fillet or blend that gets applied to finish the design.
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While the major studios might be clamouring for a program that will automatically convert mesh to nurbs, no software could replace the human element needed to reproduce missing bits that weren’t in the original mesh or produce a surface structure that knows where and when to be overbuilt, all vital parts for 3-D production.Also the mesh you are given which usually will have been scanned from a clay model will have defects in the surface. It will have copied cracks in the clay and whilst the standard of clay models is typically very high- if it was modeled to an agressive deadline there will often be areas where surfaces are inaccurate from the left to the right hand side of the model or where surfaaces may have undulations. The Alias Surfacer has the job of identifying these issues to the Designer and then putting all of them right.
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