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I recommend Dr Logo. Much more productive software.

I was using an Ipad Pro but that's a bit clunky to use on the trail. I now have an iPhone 12 Pro, which was the first with the lidar on the front. I use 3D scanner app, which seems pretty good so far. Lots of viewing options as well as export options, so you can make a video within the app, or export it into other applications, like I have done here with the ride-through animation. apps.apple.com/us/app/3d-scanner-app/

How did it do it here? Trim? Split face and delete? Split body? I cannot remember. So many options.

Good question. If so, I bet it is not straight forward.

All good! Thanks for watching.

Thanks for that, much appreciated!

Hi, I disagree, as there was experimentation and failures along the way. Which means it would be a very long video and not that informative.

@@AndrewJacksonDesignStudio I can understand this happened once you get perfect geometry then you may repeat method while recording, because for beginners they face error.

Yes, understandable from a beginner point of view. I'm not producing beginner content as youtube is flooded with it. I try and capture more advanced techniques that I may have figured out on client jobs, or exercises that I have set myself to improve my modelling skills. I pretty much always upload the part file, so people can roll through it and pick it apart. Thanks for watching.

@@AndrewJacksonDesignStudio I appreciate your work and effort to put in videos 🙂

Hi Ollie, not sure how I'd approach that mouse off the top of my head. DesignPartners (now PA Consulting Ireland) did use Creo but I know they also use SW as well but suspect Logitech is still Creo. Thanks for watching!

Hi, I posted a STEP export of the primary surfaces in this forum thread. I'm not releasing anything more detailled sorry. cadforum.net/viewtopic.php?p=30055&hilit=747#p30055

@JacksonDesignStudio Wow that was a fast response and thank you.

Waiting for renderings so killing time!

Hi there. I'm not sure what the question is?

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All good, thanks for checking it out.

Last I heard, Logitech still use Creo. When I was at Designpartners (now 20 years ago... feeling old) they designed quite a few of Logitech's products, all done in Wildfire at the time. Main exterior/offset surfaces handed over to Logitech ME dept (in Cork?) for ME modelling.

Hi there. Sketch 126 uses Plane 40. Plane 40 references two points and is rotated via an angle reference. I have no control over how the view is oriented in 3D space, when looking normal to the sketch plane. Solidworks sets that based on the plane references. Plane 40 is directly above Sketch 126 in the feature tree, if you are using flat tree view, which it is in the model I made available online. The video is not a tutorial! It'd be hours long, that is not something I am interested in making. The model should suffice if you have an intermediate level understanding of Solidworks. Cheers.

Thanks for watching. Yes, not really a beginner project but hopefully some of it was useful.

Hi there. Good question. The main reason is nurbs surfaces have 4 sides, so if you make a boundary surface with 3 sides, one of the edges is collapsed into a singularity. That can cause all sorts of headaches later on (surface wiggles, issues offsetting surface etc). Surface Fill in Solidworks will fit a larger/overbuilt 4 sided surface patch over a 3 sided hole which is then trimmed. It can be difficult to get good edge continuity using surface fills (even with constraint curves) plus they can randomly 'blow up' with spikes, dimples and wobbles appearing for no obvious reasons. These links have some great information that is relevant to SW as well. Cheers! help.autodesk.com/view/ALIAS/2022/ENU/?guid=GUID-2E98736D-0AE9-4021-A488-5D4522F20162 help.autodesk.com/view/ALIAS/2023/ENU/?guid=GUID-3E5274C3-FB89-4583-8087-A3E17DB849A1

@@AndrewJacksonDesignStudio Thx man! Love your attitude. You are really helping me (and I'm sure also a lot of other people) out. Keep up the great content! As an industrial design student I only really learn solid modelling at university and its hard to get good tutorials for surface modelling in Solidworks. Btw I'd find it super interesting to hear where you see the weaknesses and strenghts of Solidworks in comparison to Rhino. Thats a discussion I often have with colleagues ;) For me the main reason why I choose Solidworks is the Feature Tree and the ease of making changes afterwards. On the other hand if you plan on working as a freelance industrial designer you have to pay way more money for using Solidworks than Rhino. Maybe you could cover that in a future video

All good, pleased the videos are helping. Yeah there is lots of solids/intermediate content out there but not too much surfacing, and half of the surfacing content is people making patterned vases or impossible tables, which has little value for ID'ers trying to use SW in a production environment! I use both Rhino and SW, but mainly SW for commercial projects unless I need a super clean/lightweight surface, in which case that is usually needed for Grasshopper for patterning etc. I find it much easier to make changes to models in SW, even models that are well developed and feature heavy. You do need to structure the master models and child parts accordingly to make them robust enough. The down side is SW output can be average, with the SW analysis tools being too clumsy to spot some wrinkles/issues with surfaces and edge continuity. I have a macro to push selected surfaces into Rhino to use the zebra analysis there, as you can control the analysis mesh much more than you can in SW. It is possible to make much cleaner/lightweight surfaces in Rhino, as well as being able to point edit the surfaces, which is not possible in SW without using the freeform etc features, which are not a joy to use. With Rhino you have to have a strategy in place to deal with changes, which in my case, means layering off the model as things progress, so you can always go back and branch off an earlier iteration. Hope that helps! Cheers, AJ

Hi, I'm not targeting my content at absolute beginners. There's loads of content in that area already.

Thanks! Hope you have a good 2024!

Is that the g9x with changeable panels? I helped produce some renderings for the launch. I never got a full sample of it though. I know what you mean. I have a Mx518, which they did relaunch, but I cannot find any. The mx518 has enough angle to rotate my arm AND it has a form that you can lift (i'm a noisy mouse user!) lots of the new ergo mice have no undercuts, so no lifting.

Thanks for watching!

That's in my 'product forms' playlist. Modelled it a few years ago. th-cam.com/play/PLqWNlz5iPnK-g8xhSPfiJ3qaFneoplmIU.html Also modelled it in Rhino, there's an over view in my Rhino playlist.

Santa Cruz use Creo (well, used to). I do know of a few MTB companies that use SW. This stuff is a pain to do in Creo as well.

All good Vincent.

All good, thanks for the super!

Thanks for watching!

Hi there. That's a bezier curve, deg5 (6CVs) and I've only constrained the end points with dimensions. I've dragged the other CVs around but did not get around to constraining them. Cheers.

Thanks for watching, good to know. Cheers, AJ

The difference is mainly aesthetic and tactile. If you make all connections between surfaces tangent, there is a good chance those tangent connections will be visible and depending on scale and accessibility, the user can also feel them. Definitely visible in renderings as well. Worth the effort to make connections curvature continuous, as once the product is launched and there are 100,000 in the market, it's too late to change!

@@AndrewJacksonDesignStudio Thank you!!!

All good 👍

That’s a great idea for an exercise. I saw someone post something about a golf driver on the SW reddit page last week, definitely not an easy challenge.

Thank you 👍

I've got a half finished Vitra Belleville chair model, kind of ran out of energy on that one. The underside-to-leg blends are fairly complex. That'll be the next chair video I post, if I finish it! www.vitra.com/en-au/product/belleville-chair

@AndrewJacksonDesignStudio Awesome, the Belleville is a beautiful chair! Here's to hoping you get around to finishing it up haha

Good stuff, did it go ok in Alias?

Yes thanks at the time I was getting my head around problems like wing tips nose cones in my case I’d roughed out a Boeing type nose working through pointy objects and 4 sides patches - will be turning my attention to SW in 24 time permitting

All good Dominic! Thanks for the super thanks!

Hi there, yes that does look like a trickier one to model up. I'm keen to have a crack at it, just not quite sure when at the moment, work has picked up! Thanks for watching! Cheers, Andrew.

@@AndrewJacksonDesignStudio Thanks for responding. Yes sure whenever you get a chance. In the meantime, I'll try it again and post if I figure it out. Cheers!

All good Ali!

All good! Any issues getting it to work? Apart from needing admin rights to change the shader 😀

Hi there, I made that as a single boundary surface, used selection manager to pick the long boundaries, merge tangent faces on. Result was a single surface. I did try making this as several boundary surfaces but had some wrinkles between surfs. If you have issues with the boundary surface being multiple faces even though you have merge tangent faces selected, that means there’s a discontinuity on one of the boundaries.

you’ll always have edges between surfaces even after knitting them together, unless you’re knitting pieces of the same geometry together like an extrude (merge faces on)

Good stuff!

Not many pictures of the back online, looks like a soft pebble form? You might find some insight in this playlist, may be something similar. th-cam.com/play/PLqWNlz5iPnK86GU8yZivCowaTDCHuglc5.html