Industrial Design (organic forms) tutorials?

Does anyone have any leads on tutorials for making freeform shapes in
Solidworks? Everything I've seen seems to be for mechanical part modelling &
I know it's possible to model ANYTHING in Solidworks.

Thanks

 

Almost anything.

Have a look at the tutorials at http://www.dimontegroup.com/Tutorials.htm

The tutorials are written by Ed Eaton, who has been a source of much
information and inspiration to a lot of us. Do a search for 'curvy stuff'
or similar on comp.cad.solidworks in groups.google.com (all discussions
archived there).

Other names to look for are Mark Biasotti, Mike Wilson and Paul Salvador,
all of whom have provided models or tutorials in the past.

Chris

 

Those look fab -- thanks, Chris!

 

I'm interested to know what can't be modelled in solidworks? Where do the
limitations start?

 

Try mucking around with the surfacing, and you will note that it's not
really up there with applications such as Alias for the creation of ultra
high-quality surfaces (or at least, I tend to keep running into problems).
Getting better with every release though...

Can't do direct manipulation of surface, either (ie pulling and pushing a
cloud of Nurbs control points). I've yet to try Geometryworks or
Shapeworks - they appear to take some of the pain out of this.

And as I write this I realise that I will doubtless start JB off - sorry
folks.

Chris
(unified, seamless hybrid of beer bottle and cad monkey...)

 

Why would that be... you already have stated what needs to be said about
SolidWorks "surfacing". Thanks for saving me the time.

jon