Hey! Thanks for the shout out. I'm still a newbie at CAD but I love learning and teaching. Looking forward to watching this video in full and learning as much as possible.
This video is awesome. I learned so much from this video! Specific gems: Precise Section view, revolving/projecting off of sketches, the hidden "menu" via spacebar, and of course your approach for not using mirroring was interesting to see. Great stuff!
You might be new but you have the mindset that Parametric CAD needs. That is the understanding of how the "History" of it works and how every feature affects the next. Glad you liked the video too.
Great step-by-step for modeling the egg cover part. I started to model that one quite a while ago, before I learned that you could project edges from a Precise Section view. That tidbit of information is a real gem. I'll have to give it another shot one of these days. I modeled the socket part a while ago and used a different method than you did, I haven't seen Davinche's video yet to see how he did the model. It's always interesting to see the various ways of creating the same features. As the saying goes, "there's more than one way to skin a ...".😄
Hey Harold, glad you liked the video and thanks for commenting. There's definitely more than one way, and especially in Alibre! As I write in my reply to Ty, you could even make a large extrude, convert to surface, parametrically move in to place, and trim to get the edge along that bottom surface. But I think that not too many people new that little trick with the section projection and I think it's very useful, so I wanted to show it. Thanks again and keep your videos coming too. I really enjoyed the SM Hanger video you did. Great, in depth explanation.
Great video. I enjoyed your commentary on your thought process on how you were going to recreate the drawing. I will definitely commit the section view sketching to memory super handy. Thanks.
Hey Kieran, glad you liked it. It one of those things that can get you out of a bind. However, because it cannot maintain associativity heed my warning: "Only do it when you can do nothing else to get your geometry!" Thank you for watching and thank you for your comment!
14:31 Wow! I didn't know that you could select the section view faces and project those! That's very useful. I haven't needed that for anything so far, but I'm sure that'll come up eventually! 24:27 Do you have a video where you show that midpoint trick in more detail? (EDIT: Nevermind I found it!)
Hey man! Glad you liked that little trick. I thought that that Egg Cover Cap was the ideal part to showcase that trick. I might make another video just showing how to get the same geometry parametrically. By creating surfaces. It's an approach I call WWJD: What Would Joseph_L Do... lol Should make an interesting little video
Seemingly simple parts like the first one can be quite tricky to design.... You tackle it very comprehensively! Great as expected! P.S hit the mouse on the table a couple of times. In most cases it works like a charm....
I will hit it. Furiously... As soon as the Logitech one I just ordered get delivered. I guess for 15€ Made of pure Chinesium this one lasted well for 3 years... Thanks for the comment man. Glad you liked and always great to see you in the comment thread
Good on you mate! For ribs on the egg, would it be easier using thin extrude to a geometry, unlike you've had to use non-associative section cut. I got that you probably wanted to show the trick, which could be useful at times. Thank you.
Thank, Ty! Glad you liked that little trick. To be honest you can have parametric projections and use the shell thickness parameter to constraint a new arc, etc. It won't even take too much longer. Also, you can create a surface and intersect it with that compound surface, which would also be parametric.But I did indeed want to show that trick. As for the thin-extrude, I've used it to make parametric ribs before but how would you use it for these that have straight and curved segments? Thank you for your comment! Cheers!
Thank you so much! I will have to go back in and do this one the right way. In this case, it was far better to add features up than to subtract and I will have to keep that intuition for the future. Haha and I only wish I was a full fledged engineer. Just a fixture designer for right now :) But just know that because of what you told me earlier, anytime I see you demo something, I still can't hesitate to ask myself "what would Joko do?" lol probably create obscure solutions with surfaces that simplify everything like magic!
Hey Sam everybody starts somewhere! Fixture designer is actually a good place to start. And Yes, I guess that's what Joko would do. I might do a similar solution to that part but with surfaces. That way the result is also parametric. It might be worth to make a short addendum to this video.
Well the Excel Add-on should work the same way in any Alibre version. But there are add ins that cause it to fail. For example the solver add in and the optimize add in cause the Alibre add in not to work. I have a video in The works on the Excel add on and how it works
Hey! Thanks for the shout out. I'm still a newbie at CAD but I love learning and teaching. Looking forward to watching this video in full and learning as much as possible.
This video is awesome. I learned so much from this video! Specific gems: Precise Section view, revolving/projecting off of sketches, the hidden "menu" via spacebar, and of course your approach for not using mirroring was interesting to see. Great stuff!
You might be new but you have the mindset that Parametric CAD needs. That is the understanding of how the "History" of it works and how every feature affects the next. Glad you liked the video too.
Great step-by-step for modeling the egg cover part. I started to model that one quite a while ago, before I learned that you could project edges from a Precise Section view. That tidbit of information is a real gem. I'll have to give it another shot one of these days.
I modeled the socket part a while ago and used a different method than you did, I haven't seen Davinche's video yet to see how he did the model. It's always interesting to see the various ways of creating the same features. As the saying goes, "there's more than one way to skin a ...".😄
Hey Harold, glad you liked the video and thanks for commenting. There's definitely more than one way, and especially in Alibre! As I write in my reply to Ty, you could even make a large extrude, convert to surface, parametrically move in to place, and trim to get the edge along that bottom surface.
But I think that not too many people new that little trick with the section projection and I think it's very useful, so I wanted to show it.
Thanks again and keep your videos coming too. I really enjoyed the SM Hanger video you did. Great, in depth explanation.
Great video. I enjoyed your commentary on your thought process on how you were going to recreate the drawing. I will definitely commit the section view sketching to memory super handy. Thanks.
Hey Kieran, glad you liked it. It one of those things that can get you out of a bind. However, because it cannot maintain associativity heed my warning:
"Only do it when you can do nothing else to get your geometry!"
Thank you for watching and thank you for your comment!
14:31 Wow! I didn't know that you could select the section view faces and project those! That's very useful. I haven't needed that for anything so far, but I'm sure that'll come up eventually!
24:27 Do you have a video where you show that midpoint trick in more detail? (EDIT: Nevermind I found it!)
Hey man! Glad you liked that little trick. I thought that that Egg Cover Cap was the ideal part to showcase that trick. I might make another video just showing how to get the same geometry parametrically. By creating surfaces. It's an approach I call WWJD: What Would Joseph_L Do... lol
Should make an interesting little video
Seemingly simple parts like the first one can be quite tricky to design.... You tackle it very comprehensively! Great as expected! P.S hit the mouse on the table a couple of times. In most cases it works like a charm....
I will hit it. Furiously... As soon as the Logitech one I just ordered get delivered. I guess for 15€ Made of pure Chinesium this one lasted well for 3 years...
Thanks for the comment man. Glad you liked and always great to see you in the comment thread
Great video. As usual I learned some new things. Thanks.
Hey Gary, thanks for yoyur comment. It's always nice to know that I'm helping.
Good on you mate! For ribs on the egg, would it be easier using thin extrude to a geometry, unlike you've had to use non-associative section cut. I got that you probably wanted to show the trick, which could be useful at times. Thank you.
Thank, Ty! Glad you liked that little trick. To be honest you can have parametric projections and use the shell thickness parameter to constraint a new arc, etc. It won't even take too much longer. Also, you can create a surface and intersect it with that compound surface, which would also be parametric.But I did indeed want to show that trick.
As for the thin-extrude, I've used it to make parametric ribs before but how would you use it for these that have straight and curved segments?
Thank you for your comment! Cheers!
Thank you so much! I will have to go back in and do this one the right way. In this case, it was far better to add features up than to subtract and I will have to keep that intuition for the future.
Haha and I only wish I was a full fledged engineer. Just a fixture designer for right now :)
But just know that because of what you told me earlier, anytime I see you demo something, I still can't hesitate to ask myself "what would Joko do?"
lol probably create obscure solutions with surfaces that simplify everything like magic!
Hey Sam everybody starts somewhere! Fixture designer is actually a good place to start. And Yes, I guess that's what Joko would do. I might do a similar solution to that part but with surfaces. That way the result is also parametric. It might be worth to make a short addendum to this video.
great videos. Any luck connecting Excel Add on to Alibre Atom?
Well the Excel Add-on should work the same way in any Alibre version.
But there are add ins that cause it to fail. For example the solver add in and the optimize add in cause the Alibre add in not to work.
I have a video in The works on the Excel add on and how it works