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Manufacturing Process?

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 10:44 pm
by Tea_Bag
Hey Guys,

Dont know if any of you experienced produt designers can point me in the right direction of how this gets produced specially the meshed area!

Others are welcome to help!

Chinois
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I'm usually good in finding out the manufacturing process but am stumped on this one!

Thanks in advance

Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 6:31 pm
by johann.dugge
All I can contribute to this is that I imagine that a piece of flat woven mesh is formed in a deep drawing process to give the conical shape.

Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 9:12 pm
by polynurb
Hey Tea_Bag,

looks like you have to model a Tea Filter ... :D

if you have rhino at your hands just draw 2 phase off sinus curves, array them and rotate-copy 90°.

then draw a surface, and a deformed (same footprint) surface - then use "FlowAlongSurface" to remapp the curves.

should look something like the real thing...

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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 12:17 am
by polynurb
couldn't resist a testrender.. :) :wink:

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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 12:41 am
by -Adrian
Hehe, that came out very convincing :D

Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 12:47 pm
by Tea_Bag
Hey,

@johann - Thanks for the insite a good starting point! :)

@polynurb - :shock: Thanks for the illustration gives me some ideas for the modelling stage! :)

Nicely done with the testrender polynurb! :wink: