Saturday, March 9, 2013

Modeling


I've been studying how to use Solidworks and I'm modeling an iPhone 5. I don't have one so I'm referencing photos off the Internet and a schematics drawing I found with its exact dimensions. It's kind of tangent, but this makes me realize more how much important detail is when you're drawing for  development, whether you're an architect, engineer, artist... And detailing comes from knowing what you're drawing, and I don't usually get that specific that's why I have problems with detail. But that's getting off topic, I'll post my finished model in a later post, still playing with rendering to get the nicest view. I did want to share the speaker mesh I made using a sinusoidal driven curve that I patterned. Apparently, this is the part that covers the iPhone 5 speaker hole (the part you hold up to your ear). I'm trying to reverse engineer the iPhone lol, and it's really made me appreciate its design like the subtle fillet and chamfers around certain edges.