These movies cover some techniques for designing fabric based object in TouchCAD, such as awnings, hypars, cone roofs, spider tents, organically shaped tunnel tents, and image mapping on curved fabrics objects.
Hypar awning (
4,3 Mb, 3.42 minutes). Illustrates a very
common type of tensile shape.
Conic Sail Roof
1 ( 5.2 Mb, 4.18
minutes). Illustrates how to generate a rectangle to circle shape and
how to make use of TouchCAD's superior shape control to generate a smooth
looking shape.
Conic Sail Roof
2 ( 4.8 Mb, 2.49
minutes). Illustrates how to extend Conic Sail Roof 1 into a multi segment
unit, modify it to work better as a combined unit and add some edge curves.
The movie illustrates the use of the scale box to quickly achieve a change
in shape.
Spider Tent ( 3.0 Mb, 2.49 minutes) Illustrates how
to model a basic "spider tent" shape.
Bouncy Castle
( 6.4 Mb, 4.56 minutes) Illustrates how to model a
small bouncy castle.
Peanut Inflatable
( 4.8 Mb, 3.05 minutes) Illustrates
how to model "peanut" shaped inflatable.
Organic Tunnel
( 10.5 Mb, 6.09 minutes) Illustrates
how to model a organically shaped inflatable tunnel.
Digitize
(3 Mb / 2.18 minutes) illustrate
the basic steps for digitizing a boat hood, exporting it to TouchCAD, skinning
and unfolding it, and exporting the result as a ready to cut file in DXF-AAMA
format.
For further information regarding the hardware used, click here.
Car Seat (8.0 Mb / 6.48 minutes) illustrates how to model
a car seat cover.
Sail Mapping
(7.5 Mb / 5.52 minutes) illustrates
the basic steps for importing a background image and mapping it on a sail.
Shop Window Cover.
Shop Window Cover
(6.2 Mb / 5.29 minutes) illustrates
how to model a shop window cover based on some in-scale background images.
Sail Roof ( 6.1 Mb / 11
minutes) illustrates how to generate a simple sail roof, a hypar and
some other similar objects. .
Human Shape (6.1 Mb /
11 minutes) illustrates how to model a basic human body. The model can
be enhanced further depending on what it is used for, but for inflated objects
it is usually a good idea to keep the model as simple as possible. The movie
can also be used as an example how to model animal shapes. .
When modeling figures, it can sometimes be useful to start with a set of background images, which can be just scanned in sketches or photos. The example was designed by Juan Jose Najar.
Image Balloon (7.2 Mb / 8 minutes) illustrates how to model a balloon shape
based on a background image, how to apply the image on the finished 3D model,
and how to unfold the image. .
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