Hello All,

I'm trying to design a holder for my earbuds and I suspect I'm not going about it in the most efficient way.











What would be a good way to design this?

Many thanks in advance :)
Gunter

Have you used Network ?

Hi Pilou, no I haven't. No idea how to but I'll look on line for tutorials.
Thanks very much!
Gunter

I made a test file showing how one can approach this. The lines and surfaces are color coded. Each color is a separate sweep. In the end join all the surfaces.

With the Network...

Don't know why, but somehow everybody seems to ignore LOFT.

3 curves, a point and presto, done...

Hi,
perhaps this method is ok.
Cheers Barry

Quick and dirty! Love it!

But: The sides are straight.

Hey Gunter,
Steve Jobs was obsessed with G2 surfacing.

A method to make those pods is to use blend. Here is a video of doing it.



Just make your outer profile and extrude a surface

Then part it and use blend. Just after the blend, you can delete the extruded surface and just mirror the blend half result to get a very smooth pill to work on.

So like what Barry shows above, just stop at the extrude and blend that top part. (The surface needs to be open) Then just use only the blend result for 2 halves.

Hope that helps.

Here's a version using rail revolve:







- Michael

Thank you All for your input, much appreciated.

@Michael - this looks so simple. I downloaded your file and tried it myself but I can't
seem to get how to rail revolve it the way you did.

Would you mind explaining how to do it?

Many thanks!
Guntet

- pick the curve
- then the rail
- two end points of the curve as the axis

Voila.

Elegant!

Hi Gunter, yes in a little more detail it goes like this:

Step 1 - select the "C" shaped profile curve.

Step 2 - run the Construct > Revolve > Rail revolve command (2nd icon under Revolve).

Step 3 - The prompt will say "Select rail curve". click on the closed oblong rail curve.

Step 4 - The prompt will say 'Pick revolve axis start point". Pick one end of the "C" profile curve.

Step 5 - The prompt will say "Pick revolve axis end point", Pick other end of the "C" profile curve.

In general make sure to look over at the prompt in the upper right area of the window, it will tell you what the command is expecting you to do next.

- Michael

Micheal, thank you very much. This is SO simple.
Much appreciated :)
Gunter