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.
ACCEPTED SOLUTION
Accepted Solutions
- 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
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
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.
- 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
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.
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.
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 durablesBart Brejcha
Anyone familiar with the furniture designer Sam Maloof, Alto Loma, California?
His chairs and furniture are works of art! I believe I've only seen some "from afar" in person.
These are pieces that you need to touch to experience.
I like woodworking and "rocking chairs".
This was built using top down design...
~CP Hendsbee
__PRESENT
As a Marine Corps veteran, I think that our corps logo is by far the "Best"...!
I'm not super excited about the "new" Eagle Globe & Anchor logo...
The Eagle & Banner were modeled up using "Freestyle".
Rendered in Keyshot, I'm not overly excited about Keyshot...but my preferred tool 3DS Max I no longer
have access to. I'm warming up to Blender which is open source...! www.blender.org
This is the image I used to work up this model.
~CP Hendsbee
