Lightly Chair by Noho. Solidworks Model Review
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- Опубліковано 11 жов 2024
- I'm pleased to share my first client work on UA-cam! The Lightly Chair by Noho, designed by Formway Design Studio and manufactured here in New Zealand.
Formway has kindly allowed me to go over the parts I modelled for them: final models for tooling, based on their feasibility CAD models. In this video, I cover some of the challenges involved in modelling the seat frame and seat pan/shell.
If you have any questions about the model or the process, please fire away in the comments.
I did not want to make the video too long, so it does not go into great depth.
You can find more information here on Formway formway.com/ and Noho noho.co
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Beautiful work !! Congrats
Best of the best...great skills and aesthetics as usual.
Watching at 11:54pm… blown away with the detail and surfacing! As always great work mate… watched it twice lol
Thanks for watching!
Andrew you are doing so much good for Industrial Designers! Thank you for sharing this work!
All good Tony! Happy to be able to share some real stuff finally!
Oh wow man, this is awesome!
I always wanted to see your actual work in more depth, because I've seen complex part-lines in chairs and just wanted to see some of the working around it.
Thanks so much for sharing.
All good Schalk, hope to have another client project that I can share soon as well.
I really like your work and precisely the tricks that you use to build (class A- surfaces) and for me, you are the best modeler on youtube❤☺
Thanks for watching Naeem!
cool
Amazing work! Those part lines and draft angles can be quite a headache. I imagine there were quite a few iterations to get that tooling to work.
Yes I remember a few huddles in the corner with the others working on this. Drafting sections that are running nearly normal to the line of draw does interesting things!
Great vid Andrew, having a real client example is super useful to see!
With that in mind, are you able to share more about the working process?
As this is a real project, it would be amazing to hear more about the project workflow - was the design already done and handed to you for final production cad? Did your model need to be parametric to handle design changes through the process ( eg incase of size changes) and how did you handle that given the many complex surface detailings going on in the model?
If you haven’t already, it would be great to see a video on how you handle setting up a complex surfacing model like this but have it be flexible to accommodate many client change requests (or is it a matter of creating a fresh new model each time?)
Hi Craig, I wanted to keep the video fairly short, so it really only skims the surface. To answer your questions, the design was pretty much there from an aesthetic and performance point of view. The tooling/draft/split strategy was still very much a WIP, especially the main actions and the implications on the lower front-to-back member. Without the actions, the design was quite different! There were constant changes happening all over the place. One example is when you have a hard draft constraint, say 2 deg either side of a part line. All geometry on either side must fall below that draft, there is no cheating it. That has quite a profound effect on surrounding geometry, especially if the surfaces leading into the split area are crowned. Sometimes we had to work backwards from these areas and adjust things accordingly.
When building something like this, you can not foresee every possible permutation, so I focused on setting things up to be as flexible as possible for the design intent or constraints that were known about at that time. Good problem to have when using a parametric feature based modeller I guess.
I guess that last paragraph applies to your second question to some degree.
Fire away if you have any other questions. Cheers, AJ
Andrew, could you share how many hours did it take from the almost designed to ready to manufacture model? I think it is worth mentioning for all the people interested in introducing their product to the market ;)
Hi Mikolaj, good question! Roughly 220 hours, from start until the file going out for first tooling comment. That is just my time. On top of that there would have been others working on drawings for tooling, FEA, mouldflow etc. There were more sections of work after tooling comment, tool mods etc, but I cannot place a figure on that.
Fantastic! How many tests did you have to do before settling on the concave form?
From memory the designers and engineers already had the seat performance and form pretty well defined by the time I got involved. Any tweaks were fairly small.