Some of these personal projects might filter through to my blog posts as most of my hobbies involve design/digital prototyping of some sort. A few that stand out would be: touring around our beautiful country on my motorbike with my wife, hacking my espresso machine to make a better cup, performing CNC conversions on machine tools, and building UAVs. Outside of work I am a man of numerous varied passions and interests. I emigrated here from South Africa when I was 11 years old, eventually marrying a girl from the deep south (of New Zealand.) We have 2 child-substitutes in the form of Sphynx cats, but hope to add some human members to the family at some point too. Hello, I’m Gavin, a Technical Consultant for an Autodesk VAR in Christchurch, New Zealand. In the video below, I’ll take you through the basic tools and how to use them. You can also go back and edit the original freeform body just like you would with any other history-based feature. The tools that Autodesk have built allow very simple conversion from the t-splines body to a solid body, which you can perform all of your normal solid editing operations on. T-Splines technology, in the form of Freeform bodies, has given us an entirely new way of creating organic forms (like the one in the title image) in Inventor. We covered the announcement right here on Design and Motion, but in this article we go a little bit deeper and take these new technologies for a spin. Now unless you’ve had your head under a rock for the last little while, you’re bound to have heard that Autodesk have thrown some great new toys in the Inventor box this year in the form (no pun intended) of Freeform bodies and Direct-Edit model manipulation.
So here we have it, the second post in the series which explores the new features that Mike finds…… sexy. He made reference to the “sexy” new Direct Editing and Freeform surfacing tools but didn’t elaborate as he wasn’t the lucky author who drew the longer straw, I was. Recently, Mike started off our Inventor 2015 Deep Dive series with a great post on the new sketch features in Autodesk Inventor 2015.
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