Curvy stuff 201...

....has been added to the DimonteGroup website, along with a few other
presentations from this years SWxWorld. Remember, this Curvy Stuff is a new
session - it is not an update of anything from the past two years, though
there is some review to get everyone on the same page. Pay special attention
to the slide notes - I basically transcribed everything I said in the live
presentation. I hope y'all like it.
http://www.dimontegroup.com/Tutorials.htm.

 

Way to go Ed! I can't wait to check it out...

MikeWilson

 

Ed,

Just finished looking through it...
Very nice layout and very good information!!
As with the last one, I appreciate the time you placed into this!

BTW, how did you display all the isoparms (U/V curves) at one time on
the jet??

... 8^)

 

Thank you, I appreciate it.

 

I'm sad to say it had to be a PhotoShop composite. Boy, would it be helpful
to evaluate face curves on more than one face at a time without actually
having to make them. I generally use the preview for face curves to figure
out the flow.

 

Ed

Thanks yet again- excellent content, and GREAT examples !!

Regret I wasn't there to see it in person (small question of about 12000 km)


Also regret I've dug in my heels (although much more relief than regret) and
exited the upgrade treadmill after eight years of loyal trudging, thus
unable to open your model

That said, and I freely acknowledge I've got a cheek to ask for more, could
I be permitted one question re the powerpoint bullets? *

<<Use ‘sanding’ metaphor>> What's this about?


* I was going to say "tiny" question, but no useful question on this stuff
is ever going to admit of a really short answer.

Nevertheless, even a quick hint would be hugely appreciated, 'cos I've often
thought about "sanding" in relation to tricky modelling, and it may be I can
fill in the gaps from what I've already discovered

Talking of "filling gaps", I've lost count of the diverse times and ways the
"atom bomb" (followed by "regime change" <g>) approach has got me out of
jail. I know it's Jason's idea, but I'm also grateful to you for drawing our
attention to it.

 

Ed

My best guess re "sanding metaphor": are you recommending visualising the
action of sanding as a method of "carving" the shape from solid, and
suggesting that the isoparm lines of the modelled surface should lie along
and across the direction of the strokes?

Cold, warm, hot?

 

Quite Hot. Its explained right at the beginnigns of the presenation, in the
notes of slide 4. I suppsoe its easy to miss unless you were lsitenign to
it live. Good deduction, though.
The sanding metaphor has gotten me out of trouble a lot over this last year.
It also helps when I'm looking at a shape and have no idea where to start -
it gives me a direction for the feature, and has (so far) never failed me.
The surface fill sample (the only SWx sample) shows how using this sort of
thinking allowed me to make an inferior patch into an acceptable one.

 

Good stuff.

Thanks for making it available.

 

Would be nice to read this.................

Website appears to be down, but everyone else seems to be getting to it!

Me

 

The website is up, but I think we are getting hit with a lot of traffic. In
addition to Curvy Stuff 201, we also having new presentations on drawings,
design intent, and virtual prototyping success stories. Even though SWx
World was smaller this year, there were still plenty of folks who liked the
presentations that wanted to download them.
I just checked on my home connection (regrettably, no high speed available
in my neighborhood!), and I got right through. Just keep trying, I guess.

 

Thanks Ed

These tutorials of yours are an awesome resource, especially now I know to
check out the "speaker notes". The added value is considerable (it's like
discovering a diff-lock, on a 4WD you'd already been getting great results
from on extreme terrain)

Clearly (particularly in the case of CS201) you've put a lot of time into
the notes, subsequent to the presentation, purely for our benefit.

At the risk of "too much of a good thing" (which Liberace famously
considered to be exactly the right amount)

THANKS again

 

Another fine presentation! The slide notes are a big help on a number of the
slides. I don't suppose you have the time and inclination to add slide notes
to 101 and 102.

Jerry Steiger
Tripod Data Systems

 

"I don't suppose you have the time and inclination to add slide notes
to 101 and 102."


That would be very kind of him (you),...., if possible.