Creo "Freestyle" Community Challenge #7: design a toy, robot, fun product or packaging

[bbrejcha]

Happy New Year, PTC Community! 

After my guest talk Class A  Creo Surfacing on 11/21, the PTC Community Team asked me to come up with the first Creo Community Challenge for 2025!   Freestyle surfacing is impressive if you haven't used it yet consider this challenge.  1 Modeling: using Freestyle  2 Rendering: Creo Render Studio 3 Movement:  Creo Mechanism   The latter 'movement' might be fun for those robotics engineers looking to dress up their robot.

On the heels (and continuation) of the gift giving season for many, I am asking you to think about and be inspired by your favorite gifts such as Kidrobot characters, Isaac Asimov I, Robot or from the Foundation Trilogy and Artemis space suits, space robot exoskeletons, pendent or jewelry, Star Wars or Star Trek spaceships, armor, baby elephant or underwater drones.

As the first challenge of 2025, lets get as many community members involved as possible!  Decide which of these three categories you fit into.  Or, maybe you are an overachiever and want to participate in all three!

1 Modeling: Freestyle

2 Rendering: Creo Render Studio

3 Movement:  Creo Mechanism

Along with your design entry, feel free to provide some info about yourself and your submission!

Once you submit your screen grab and subsequent model, consider answering these questions. 

• What specific Freestyle tools were used?
• How long was spent modeling in freestyle?
• Approximately how much time have you had using Creo Freestyle before this model? 
• How long have you been using Creo in general?
• What would be your dream job?
• Have you ever used Creo to model and 3d print a Christmas tree ornament? 

Baby Elephant pendant modeled during my WEEK TWO surfacing course.  

[Dan_Walker-1]

here's my start at a dragon toy, will keep adding details and pushing pulling the shapes.   I'm thinking along the lines of a Mr Potato Head type toy

[Dan_Walker-1]

been more than a few minutes since I worked in the toy industry

[Dan_Walker-1]

[Dan_Walker-1]

[Dan_Walker-1]

probably spent 1 hour so far, just playing with it once in a while

[Dan_Walker-1]

[Dan_Walker-1]

I had generated an image in ChatGpt as inspiration for this based on a family trip to Vietnam I just returned from.  I'll share that when I'm much further along.

here it is a bit more refined with some pushing and pulling.  

[Dan_Walker-1]

this is too much fun.   back to my regularly scheduled programming for a bit.

[Dan_Walker-1]

@markFischer 

@Irena_Roggeveen 

[Dan_Walker-1]

  Head area pretty good for now, will move on to body details.

[Dan_Walker-1]

[Dan_Walker-1 · Accepted solution]

• What specific Freestyle tools were used?

-multiple shapes, extrude, mirror, rotational pattern of shape, subdivide, resolution modes, face split, edge split, crease, add edge, scale, transform

• How long was spent modeling in freestyle?

-probably 12 hours or so

• Approximately how much time have you had using Creo Freestyle before this model? 

-around 9 years, on and off

• How long have you been using Creo in general?

-since around 1995 maybe

• What would be your dream job?

- creating freestyle A surfaces from a nice place on the beach, or cutting grass

• Have you ever used Creo to model and 3d print a Christmas tree ornament? 

-no, but used it to create Minion goggles for my kids Halloween costumes long ago

[Michael]

Very nice. You’ve really inspired us! 

[Dan_Walker-1]

I was thinking this would've taken me a week to weeks in regular Creo or Style to create a G2 model like this, with no surface problems, considering all the changes I've made also.    So far, I'm probably about 8 hours in.

[Dan_Walker-1]

[Dan_Walker-1]

apologies if I'm spamming.   Trying to post as I add details to show the progression.  Had to split into separate models, Creo was slowing down quite a bit with the many freestyle shapes.     Not sure when I should upload models.

[Dan_Walker-1]

[Dan_Walker-1]

[Dan_Walker-1]

• What specific Freestyle tools were used?

-multiple shapes, extrude, mirror, rotational pattern of shape, subdivide, resolution modes, face split, edge split, crease, add edge, scale, transform

• How long was spent modeling in freestyle?

-probably 12 hours or so

• Approximately how much time have you had using Creo Freestyle before this model? 

-around 9 years, on and off

• How long have you been using Creo in general?

-since around 1995 maybe

• What would be your dream job?

- creating freestyle A surfaces from a nice place on the beach, or cutting grass

• Have you ever used Creo to model and 3d print a Christmas tree ornament? 

-no, but used it to create Minion goggles for my kids Halloween costumes long ago

[bbrejcha]

Awesome post Dan, thanks for answering the questions.  Mowing grass 😉  

Bart Brejcha

designengine.com 

[bbrejcha]

Lunch & Learn *TODAY

I will be presenting then presenting a 1 hr hands on workshop playing with Freestyle TODAY Wednesday Jan 15t at NOON EST  Please sign up before 11:00AM if you can.  

design-engine.com/lunch-learn/ <-sign up from this page by 9:00AM EST today if you can.  We check the roster late too but sooner the better.  

I will be administering & conducting a Freestyle or Sub'D short for Sub Divisional Surfaces workshop today Wednesday Jan 15th. I plan on conducting a quick presentation then I'll have participants try to model a shape using Freestyle, PTC's Sub'D modeler. Medical, bicycles to gummy bears.  Consider passing this link around to other teams.  Of course i'm excited to get leaders in organizations to take training but this event is to promote a challenge I presented on the PTC community page *see below

I'll be doing this one hour workshop at PTC USER in New Orleans several times also at the end of January. Please stop by and participate or at least say hello..

Bart Brejcha

designengine.com 

[3dzign]

Not quite a toy, but this "mechanized" part uses the "Freestyle" feature extensively.  It could use boundary blends exclusively...but I like to explore other methods.

~CP Hendsbee

Not quite a toy, but uses "Freestyle" heavily.  And boundary blends...

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[bbrejcha]

the challenge does not require the product being a toy.  We are looking for any creative use of Freestyle.  I've conducted four  various lunch & learn events teaching designers, product designers and mechanical engineers to use Creo Freestyle.   Some ideas to get you thinking.

using crease to manage draft for the plastic injection process

organic carbon frame development

consumer durables

Bart Brejcha

designengine.com