Cap

Hi all.

Over the past few days, I have been plodding away at the lid, and adding all the details, and using section views to do this. Below are a few pics:

Half finished.

Now that that is half done, I will model from the other side, and add in the lip, to finish it all.

The other side, was harder as i had to account for the moving lid to fit in.

Once those cuts were done, more detail was added along with the spout for the shampoo.

The lid was then created from the inside out, using an assembly, making it easier, rather then measuring and having to make constant minor adjustments.

Problems resolved

Problems solved

Me, as a baby.

Splitting the bottle proved to be difficult, as I first placed the line to split, in the middle of the model. This made it try to split the model down the center line, which broke it. After some short investigation, I put the line behind the model and it worked. Hence split bottle.

No zebras were harmed in this model. The next one tho......

There was a slight setback, as the zebra patterning shows above. It was just a stray line, fixed it looking good.

building up the inside cap

This shows the building up of the neck, which was just a series of extrusions.

Finished

Finished. Now to move onto the cap.

I hate Mondays

This is what happens.

So, the plan didn't work. Even with the new pierces' added, the guide curves would still not bend to my will.

This is with the two guide curves selected.

So, to fix this problem, Dan, the ever benevolent and inspiring leader, has suggested, I split the curves into four separate parts, rather then two sketches. I am quietly optimistic.

His name is also Dan, how does that make you feel?

IT HAS WORKED. To a certain extent. Well, half worked anyway.

So, in this pic, you can see only half of the shape is lofting.

As it turns out, there were some random lines that were trying to ruin my day. With those being deleted, it worked.

It totally did, even if its very hard to see

Lofting problems

This is actually what I look like right now.

Okay, so with the modeling of the bottle, I have already run into problems. The main problem is Lofts are stupid and should be easier and faster then they are, but due to the constants of the program I will work with what I have. The problem I am having is whenever I try to create the loft, and add the guide curves, nothing happens and the loft breaks.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

So, after some investigation, and help from fellow class mates I found out that it requires the points to not be just coincidence, but also piercing. The problem being that, while the shapes were touching each other, they were not part of each other, which is why the guide curves we're not working. I hope. Or bad things are going to start happening.

The aforementioned bad things.

J. Lo

Hi,

Upon starting my organic bottle project, I ran into problems, most of which being, the top of the bottle and the bottom of the bottle were not on the same axis. This raised quite a few problems, when trying to create the lofts, and subsequently, I surrendered.

So you can glow too like J.Lo

As you can see in the photo, the base and top of the bottle do not line up. While, I realize now how to do it, it would just be a simple matter of creating the two profiles, and then guide curves, at the time, the photos I had, had been taken with an iPhone, and it was just too annoying to try to make out the base and profiles, so I changed bottle and now am modelling a Herbal Essences tribal shampoo. This bottle has problems, or as I like to call them, Challenges of their own, but I believe its much more do able  in the time given.

 

 

Much like these, only purple

That being said, I have already run into some challenges with this bottle, first of which was my use of splines.The best way I saw to do it was to, rather then just making the spline the proper profile of the bottle, at the top, (the non lid end) there is a fillet that runs around the bottle. I was just doing to fillet after I had lofted the shape, as it seamed easier, and I still intend to do this but Solidworks isn't letting me loft.

Champagne Bottle.

Post one.

I have not have to many complications with the modeling of the champagne bottle. The hardest part I came across, was working with making all the points tangential. Something inside me didn't like the idea of not having exact references to make each curve.

Did not like.

The modeling of this did take me some time, as I had to start a few times, and restart a few more times. But about 2 hours later I had the thing down packed, and had created it. A few things I wasn't sure about was things like the thickness of the overall bottle. The way I have gone about it was followed the thickness at <5 and >5 and then continue the thickness as i saw fit. To be honest, i just really used offset, because at the end of the day, from what I read in the brief, the internal thickness is more-a-less nominal anyway, as its very hard to get glass to be so consistent on that level of production. 

So many relations

 So, at the end of the Solidworks session, I had completed the bottle. I did not atempt the bottom, as it looked really hard, and if I had gone about it, it would have just been a slightly incorrect shape revolved around the central axis.

It looks right.

-Phillip