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)

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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)
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Alias Modeling for a TC2000 Team in Argentina – part 1

By Ricci Walker

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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.

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Alias Modeler Work Processes – Scanning Clay Model

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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.

VIDEO OF CLAY MODEL (CAD INTO CLAY):

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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Alias Hood Top Fillet -“Alias Online Courses”

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As Brian nears completion of his first week as an Alias Automotive modeler in Italy, I want to report his experience in his Alias Job.

He has been given accommodation in a company residence close to the Alias Design Studio, which he likes. He has been going in an hour early 08:00h and finishing 2 hours late 19:00h. He has an experienced Alias Modeler sitting next to him, who keeps his eye on how he is getting along with his model. H’s real lucky to have a good salary and getting on the job training as well


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“Alias Modeling Jobs” part 2 “Alias Careers”

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Part 2

I hope that readers don’t conclude that I am being cynical about CAD Higher Ed. courses. It’s just that it seems to me to be quite clear, that having a degree, which includes Alias CAD modeling, simply is very rarely enough to get you a job and certainly not an Automotive Alias or ICEM surf job.

I want to tell you about 2 of my students who recently won highly paid Alias Automotive contracts. I wont give their personal details, but I will tell you what they went through and the course they took in order to get into the world of Automotive Digital Modeling (I’ll simply call them Terry and Brian)

Terry is a very talented Designer/Modeler and was when I met him 28 years old and a 3D Max expert. He was designing and modeling designer shoes.

He had started learning Alias on his own and had half completed a simple Automotive exterior. He became frustrated with not knowing the best work flows to use and had little idea about such fundamental issues as; Patch Layout and how to chose the correct surface or curve degree for any given situation.

He contacted me at my website, sent examples of his designs and Alias model. I could see that he was a talented guy with a feel for Alias modeling, so I took him on as a private student. He worked very hard on the Audi A5 model, which is a very challenging model. It wasn’t easy for him. Each time he sent me his work, I would return it with corrections, tips advice and a written report, but he never got downhearted. He didn’t progress rapidly with the model, but he approached it with a high degree of perfection. He was soon producing beautiful surfaces and I was struggling to find anything visually wrong with them, but of course I could always find the extra span shoved in here and there.

At the 3 month point he got offered an interview with a top UK car manufacturer, they loved him and his work and took him on with a great salary. He is still studying with me , learning Reverse Engineering and in anybodies book has made it!
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“Learning Alias Automotive” “Overbuild Method”

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Autodesk Alias Studio Tutorial –

Overbuild Modeling Method

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Large Overbuilt Rail Surfaces are intersected to create the Theoretical Intersection Line.

I use this method for conceptual models where the design is constantly changing. It is relatively quick to change say the plan line of the sidewall or the amount of crown in a surface, either by direct modeling the curves or where a planar surface has been used by direct modeling it’s hull.  Using the Rail surfacing tool, a lot of the surfaces can be constructed using 2 curves, instead of the 4 required with NURBS curves and Patches

Alias Tutorial:

The Primary rail surfaces can be direct modeled at this stage to either simply follow the ref. data or to establish high quality styling lines for the main features of the exterior; waist line , shoulder line etc.

Note how the graphics have already been projected onto the sidewall & how the rear panel has been symmetrically modeled

I am able to adjust the core highlights for the primary surfaces quite easily without having to adjust a complex curve set. With this method of modeling we must be ready to start pulling CV’s right from the beginning of the modeling process


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“Alias Class A Surfacing” “Mesh to NURBS”

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NURBS from MESH Evaluating Deviation

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Here are some screenshots from one of our many videos, which you can follow by subscribing to our specialized, Pro. Alias Learning website.

This video teaches you how to Evaluate Deviation in  Nurbs from Mesh surfaces to within Pro. Alias Tols.

Nurbs from Mesh Reverse Engineeering skills are in great demand within the Automotive Industry and once you have experience, there is a lot of money to be made

 Alias Surface Tutorial

Alias Surface Tutorial

Top: Nurbs surface deviation from mesh outside tols. @ 7.4 mm

Centre: is better with max. dev= 0.96

Bottom: Alias Surfaces have perfect tessolation

 

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Bottom: This is how the Alias Surface is rendered, when tessolation is perfect

Alias Surface Tutorial

Top:Using Alias Deviation Mapping, dev. in Alias Surfaces shows clearly in red

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