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+Pro/SURFACE Level 3 Workshop
Course Duration: 16 Hours
Tuition: $1200.00 USD Cost of this course
is negotiable with more than one student enrollment from the same company.
Overview: This course is highly customizable
and is usually administered One on One. This workshop is recommended for
those looking to gain a higher level of Pro/SURFACE understanding and
wishing to go on to our most popular Level 7 ISDX
Surfacing workshop.
This class is perfect for Product Design Engineers who already maintain
a high level of surfacing but want to elevate themselves to the next level.
The class focus is on capturing form and the amazing unused tools within
Pro/SURFACE.
Prerequisite: 'Level 2 Workshop' or serious
prior use of Pro/SURFACE (this course is next after our Level 2 Workshop)
Topics:
- Learn to eliminate isoparms/isolines.
- Learn to take advantage of isoparms/isolines with respect to striation
or flow of a surface.
- Learn about tangency issues in-depth using examples from difficult
surface anomalies with or without control points.
- Learn advanced details of Variable Sweep surfacing techniques and
the ability to maintain draft .
- Learn techniques for capturing form by looking at various foam models
and offer several starting examples on how to initiate the modeling
process
- Building surfaces from graph features
- Discuss alternate surface creation techniques from robust curves.
An introduction to 3D bounding boxes or Lattice structures.
- Create ridiculously robust models utilizing lattice structures. Discuss
how to incorporate handles for further control as well as understanding
surfaces that look at those curves.
- Students, if interested, can explore curvature continuity (G2) and
multiple plans of attack by looking at existing products. Yes, Pro/SURFACE
can do curvature continuous G2 curves and surfaces.
- We supplement this training with techniques utilized by Alias, which
primarily used in the automotive industry.
- Hands on efforts through as many as ten tutorials that are illustrated
thru computer examples. This workshop could take several weeks, even
with participants who consider themselves expert level Pro/SURFACE users
and adept to advanced surfacing
Discussions:
- Discuss standard modeling techniques with respect to industry standards.
- Discuss light reflections from an Industrial Designers perspective,
with respect to G2 Continuity..
- Compare Pro/SURFACE to Alias modeling techniques and the difference
or benefits for each one.
- Discuss three part to four part boundaries with more than four examples
for getting out of a corner.
- Discuss plan of attack and a simple approach for capturing form from
foam models or ID sketches.
- Discuss the ability to prove form and the techniques to get multiple
3D iterations within hours instead of days.
- Discuss with specific examples advanced functions of Pro/SURFACE as
well as the strengths and weaknesses by comparing it to other hi-end
industry surfacing software.
- Discuss techniques for building a more robust plan of attack with
respect to Pro/SURFACE
- Discuss clam shell plastic part design as related to swept surfaces.
Also discuss styling grooves with examples.
- Discuss the proper techniques of surface modeling and the ability
for others to understand the approach.
- Discuss in detail surface analysis tools and the practical uses with
specific examples.
- Discuss in detail the techniques for avoiding 3 part boundaries and
discover why expert surface modelers do not use 3 part boundaries. (even
masters of surfacing for reverse engineering)
- Discuss in detail what Industrial Designers studied in College and
how as a product engineer you can work more efficiently within the design
arena.
- Overview of ISDX and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of both
Pro/SURACE and ISDX.
Participants can take home Web and PDF based tutorials to re-create after
the class.
This course is usually customized to focus on the students learning wishes
and company projects. Bring examples of work or problematic models on
CD ROM for in context discussions.
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