Disassembled: Progress was made

Continuing from where we left off...
After the shaping of the handles was completed, we continued forward to the hardest of the thing that we had yet faced.

The curve that connects the handle to the flat part of the pacioffi looks like a very simple innocent curve that wouldn't take too much to render. That at least was the assumption that I had when I had first started this project.

Initially the idea that both my teacher and I had thought might work was lofting several circles and a rectangle together in order to finesse the basic curve of the handle.

Although this seemed to work in it's general sense, the problem that I faced was that I was left with a large chunky 3D object that when cut in half, could not be made into a closed polysurface.

After continuing to troubleshoot and discussing this problem with my teacher, he suggested that we try surface modelling the curve as an alternative to lofting.

Seeing as that solution did end up working, as seen in the picture above, it was now time to move on to the final two pieces required to complete this render. The Screws.

The screws were very straight forward in their construction seeing as they only required a cylinder and a triangular pipe wrapping around it. The only hiccup that I had when creating this shape was that I over-sized the wrap which prevented it from being able to union.

Solving that problem, the last step was to add the ovular head of the screw, and making them a single union.

All that's left now is to render the object.

We'll get into that in the next post.

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Disassembled: The Final Product

Here we are, the home stretch. After the long journey to get to this point in the creation process, all that's left is to render the completed pacioffi. There's not too much to say at this point, so I'll run you through what we're looking at. Currently we are looking at a 3D rendering of a pair of pacioffi in both its constructed and exploded views. I originally had a harsh texture added to the pacioffi in order for them to seem more like they were made of metal. This actually prevented them to be rendered correctly. In the end, I removed the added texture which resulted in the pleasant surprise that, because the texture/colour that I chose was clasified as metal, it came with a nice subtle metal texture which ended up working wonderfully for the final product. In the end, all I ended up having to do to make this look like a completely rendered object was just add a bit of lighting and find a nice position from which I should render. I hope you enjo...

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Being tasked with the mission to recreate a three dimensional object using Rhino 6, I had some difficult choices on my hands. What would I create? At first I considered doing one of my metal brain teaser puzzles that I like to fiddle with in my free time, but both my teacher and I agreed that it was probably not the greatest idea in the world. And so, I was back to square one. I considered objects from everyday life, like pencils, pens, even a pill bottle, but nothing seemed to keep my interest for long. That is until I thought about a specialized tool used for my craft (glass blowing) called a Pacioffi. This tool with its simple form and mild curves turned out to be much more of a challenge than I had originally thought. But that's all for this post. See you in the next!

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