REVERSE ENGINEERED OBJECT: PROGRESS I
The object that I have chosen for my 'Reverse Engineered Object Project' is Jetstream Pen. The reason why I choose this object is there are a lot of challenges in some details. I thought this is simple at the first, but it is literally difficult. Even a small pen, there are various details such as rubber, cap, or texts.
So I decided to break each part apart to look more carefully. It can break into 3 parts such as a body, a spring, and a cap. I tried to figure out the way to take off the rubber part, but it doesn't work. It was completely attached.
This is a simple version of a planar figure with every measure of parts. There is a lot of details that I could not expect before. (Oh, the measure of the whole length was 139.0mm)
Anyway, I started to make a big part first, because I was afraid of some errors of measure if I started with a small part. It can be fixed up if I make the biggest part first because everything going to be inside of the biggest part. I choose the 'Small-Object - Millimiters' tamplet in Rhino.
I sketched up the body of the pen first. I skipped some details in this part because the biggest object can act as a guideline of details.
For my confusion, I broke it down into two parts; inside, outside
And revolved them to cylinders I did not touch the inside part because I should touch up the shape.
Used 'Shell', I gave them a thickness. Finally, they look like an OBJECT instead of a PAPERCRAFT. I struggled with a rugged part at the bottom because I did not make another cylinder inside of that in order to use 'Shell'. If did not, it couldn't be solid.
I used 'Shilhouette' which shows all curves to just make sure everything works well.
Also, I made two different layers such as 'curves' and 'body'. The 'Curves' layer has all curves of the object, and I put solid surfaces into the 'Body' layer. It shows me if there are invisible curves of surfaces that duplicated each other.
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