Very cool Mike, thanks for sharing.

Cheers

awesome work !

Coca or Pepsi ? ;)

Thanks guys!!

...why Coke, of course. ;-)

Great use of the network tool! I did a similar thing recently, by first revolving the gross form of the bottle -> trimming the area where the undulating-twisting form should be -> lofted 3 profiles and after completing the command, rotating each profile, with history, to create the twisting effect -> Finally I used blend to connect all the pieces.

Thanks!
That would be neat to see.


My mind was a little frizzled today - So this was more of a "free-association" piece. No purpose or procedure, it started out as something else and ended up as this.
Did a few Sweeps and went crazy with the Boolean tools.

It's a strange looking death torpedo:

What I brought my lunch in today...






1) I made the profile of the lid and bowl from the side (to the center), then the ring profile of the container shape from the top.
2) I did a Revolve by Rail with the side profile along the ring to create the basic shapes.
3) To make the bottom shape (the step in) I created the wave shape that wrapped around the bowl.
Took two copies and lofted them together, so I trimmed that from the bowl.
Actually, Boolean Trim did not work - it kept making the bottom half disappear even though "keep" was on, but Merge worked for some reason.
4) I moved the bottom section lower and scaled it in a little. The new gap was filled in with four Blends (thanks to curve Merge).
5) Added the tab.

...simple exercise.

I wonder if Danny made it first!!! lol

I don't get it Burr......

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???

Was that a compliment? ;-)

Sorry. Poor communication on my part.. Tried to make a joke.

I was under the impression that Danny did Plastic injection moulds for a large maufacturer of these types of things.. So made reference to the one sitting on your desk being modeled orginally by someone here in the forum!!! But I dont really know and it came off wierd..

The model made here was very nice. ;)

And Danny is a good modeler too. :o

Thanks ;-)

Oh okay Burr, I get it now :) and yes you're correct it is very similar to a Tupperware container.

Thanks

...this container was more inspired by the much cheaper Glad-Ware. ;-)



This is a tail light and bumper assemble of an RV:

I had to stop myself from continuing through the night, lest I accidentally finish the entire RV with no way to save the file! :-o
(I should look into the studied addiction rates for using MoI.)

Remember this crazzy guy with Sketchup and his retro futurist cars! (9 pages ! )
http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=ixlrlxi&order=9&offset=0

Magic -

Can't save? You don't have a licensed copy?

Man - we need to take up a collection and buy you a copy in return for these mini-tutorials.

The container lid gave me an idea for creating a background to use with my jewelry.

Ed

Speak of the devil, Pilou! :-0

"Ixlrlxi" ("600V") and his strange retro cars is the reason why I'm here today!

I was looking for inspiration for a tee-shirt design that I was working on and needed pics of old cars - and I found one of his blogs.

He made 3D design look too easy, whipping these shiny cars up in SketchUp. And he told me he uses no plug-ins, just the native tools.

So I've spent the last two years trying my hand at many different trials of 3D design software.

I didn't get very far with 3Ds Max, and Rhino was too tricky at the time, with too much need for use of the command line.

SketchUp showed a lot of promise and a good community to offer solutions. It is still a worthy investment.

MoI however, has simply opened a huge door and I've realized that there is something satisfying about mechanical and product design that NURBS lends itself too.

So yes, that guy with the cars showed me that I can design in the third dimension.

Ed, the suggestion flatters me! :-)

I'm a long-time tee-shirt designer ::see:: http://k4icy.50webs.com/portfolio.htm
with a wife and five kids, so extra spending money is a very rare nicety.

Michael G. deserves every penny and more for this awesome app and his help. I've known guys in various fields to charge more than that alone just for half and hour of consultation and Michael graciously does that for free plus shows examples!

Not too many companies will let you practice as much as your heart desires with there stuff - Max wouldn't let me back on after 30 days, and all I could do was 'sigh'.

WH6DBS!

QSL & 73 WH6DBS, DE K4ICY... ;-)