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How-to model a 3D Jack O' Lantern in CREO

bp
6-Contributor
6-Contributor

How-to model a 3D Jack O' Lantern in CREO

  1. Create center axis, a plane at 18 degrees (360/10/2) and a horizontal sketch of a vertical pumpkin slice section which edge touch the 18 degrees plane. (you should mirror the slice on the front plane)

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2. Create a vertical sketch representing the outer edge of the pumpkin on the 18-degrees plane. The end should touch the end of the earlier created horizontal line.

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3. Mirror the vertical sketch on the front-plane. Close the loop by adding another horizontal plane and sketch touching the top-ends of the vertical lines.

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4. Create a boundary blend and make sure the lower horizontal line is tangent to the plane it was created on.

 

 

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5. Pattern the boundary blend 10x around the center axis (divided by 360 degrees)

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6. Merge the quilts, and rounds and mirror the whole around the top plane and merge again.

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7. Add a hole in the bottom surface for the tea-light, by extruding a cut on the top-plane

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8. Create an extrude on the front plane of the cut-out face. In this case a “smiley” I imported in sketcher from a dxf file I created earlier with Adobe Illustrator using an image downloaded from google images.

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9. Create three copies of the same sketch on slightly different offsets from the top-plane which will become the pumpkin-stem-base.

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10. Use these sketches to create a solid blend

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11. Create a curved line, or several  lines on top of the stem-base by first creating new planes under different angles.

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12. create a solid sweep using the same sketch as the top of the stem-base. I used a trajpar relation in the sketcher to have the stem diameter become smaller to the end of the trajectory.

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13. Thicken the surface model and add rounds between the stem and pumpkin.

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You can finish the model by adding some nice appearance colors and by hiding the sketch lines.

 

 


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ryankelley
1-Newbie
(To:bp)

Awsome tutorial BJ, thanks for sharing! Hopefully this resource provides others with some guidance on how to create their own jack-o-lantern.

I've featured this doc in this week's Member Showcase Roundup - 10/23/13.

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