This is one of the current projects which I am working on with my Advanced Students.

It is a class A Fully blended C Pillar built in single span with very neat CV hulls and max gap tol = 0.001mm.

It is this standard of modeling that you need to aspire to if you want to enter the Automotive Industry and be respected as a competent improver. One of my students started with Fiat 3 months ago, they have since seen his potential value and placed him at Maseratti, if all goes well he will be offered a contract at Ferrari in Jan 2012

They are all working on there main Exterior projects, but also study Advanced Surfacing

of Areas such as this C-Pillar and Deck. To build this area with good highlights the patch-layout must be correct and the chordal width of the blend must be variable ie: it has to be the appropriate width all the way around , if the highlights are going to flow correctly

This is a Fully Blended C-Pillar,  

as used by Merceds, Audi And BMW. In this model there are no tangent breaks in which to hide crvtr. cont. issues, so it is a very challenging project to model

G3 Curvature Continuity

Also part of the course G3 crvtr. cont. is what all modelers aspire to achieve. In the above picture we are viewing the geometry with Limit Edge Lenght set to max of  5.00. The above geom. is modeled to Class A and tolerances are Catia V5 (max. gap < 0.001mm.)

  At this level, students learn how to control Highlights,

as they will be asked to do by Designers, once they start modeling for real in an Automotive Design studio

This project is completed working to tight tols. The spec is max. gap < 0.001mm. with the more experienced students working to Catia V5 max. gap =0.001 mm.

By the end of the course the aim is for students to be able to produce good accurate work quickly, which is what will be required of them in Industry

Here we are using Visual Curves 

to replicate the surface highlights. The course covers how to use all the Alias Evaluation tools

Note: the rear screen has been modeled symmetrically

Kind regards

graham bullock

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