any 3D modelers/renderers in here?

[evandael]

in university im gearing up to use some advanced 3d modellers. i've got rudimentary experience with maya (incredibly complex), basic formZ, and of course sketchup.

but now i'm using rhinoceros OSX, and its a fucking dream. super capable surface modeling, friendly interface, autoCAD command prompts, and a decent rendering engine..


this is a project we had to do, where we modeled lego bionicle pieces true to dimension, then just built random shit in the 3d model space. then render and photoshop!












anyone else here into this stuff? either for a career or for fun

[Conki]

I used to mess around in 3ds max, but not any more. At school I used to use pro/e, but now I use solidworks. It's not for art, but it's really fun. Cool tricycle you modeled there;)

[u3b3rg33k]

Never heard of rhinoceros OSX. Definitely going to look it up now.

[Charley]

Nice work dude. I never did rendering myself...just used the built in
software rendering module.

I did this for a school project 2 or 3 years ago using NX5

We had to make an assembly of at least 20 parts... ended up just under
200 if I remember well.I really underestimated the number of parts
required to build a TB (M50 TB + ASC TB). I had it setuped so that I could
change the diameter of each TB and the other parts would adjust
accordingly, it was pretty neat. I'm going back to school in the fall to
finish the ME degree I started and never finished...




I think I still have all the files somewhere but I can't run any modeling
software on Ubuntu (My main rig's motherboard blew a few months ago
I still haven't replaced it yet)

[325_e30]

one of my best friends just graduated from full sail university in orlando and landed a job with digital domain doing 3d rendering for movies n shit. never personally messed with it though.

[pfahls1]

I'm a CAD admin for a medical compony. We use Pro/Engineer sprinkled with a few Solid Works users. We have about 150 users in the division Im in. I just had to order 10 more seats at a cost of $86K. This stuff is not cheep. The TB above looks cool. Do you have or could you create some stl files from that and post?

[evandael]

^ yeah that's the issue, the cost.

its fun to learn all this stuff with educational licenses, but unless i land a job in a firm with a shit-ton of capital, they won't have licenses for but one or two of the programs i'm learning.

same goes for the lasercutters, huge plotters, 3D printers, cnc routers, etc. that i am using and will grow dependent on. where's that stuff in the real world? really big firms, i suppose..

[pfahls1]

I started my career designing armored cars for a small company. I was the first drafter they had. We were running a bootleg copy of AutoCAD. I then got the opportunity to land my current job 12 years ago. The company I work for now does have a lot of capital and it is easy to get used to. I work for a group called "Engineering Resources" that basically does anything our RD team needs us to do. We have 4 rapid prototyping machines (Objet, Stratasys and ZCorp), as well as multiple lathes, mills, edm's and finishing equipment. Keep in mind that all of this is just for prototyping purposes. We have manufacturing facilities in the US, PR, Germany and China for all production runs.

Hopefully there are some major corporations around you that you could get a internship at to get your foot in the door to have access to all of your interests.

^ yeah that's the issue, the cost.

its fun to learn all this stuff with educational licenses, but unless i land a job in a firm with a shit-ton of capital, they won't have licenses for but one or two of the programs i'm learning.

same goes for the lasercutters, huge plotters, 3D printers, cnc routers, etc. that i am using and will grow dependent on. where's that stuff in the real world? really big firms, i suppose..

[Conki]

I started my career designing armored cars for a small company. I was the first drafter they had. We were running a bootleg copy of AutoCAD. I then got the opportunity to land my current job 12 years ago. The company I work for now does have a lot of capital and it is easy to get used to. I work for a group called "Engineering Resources" that basically does anything our RD team needs us to do. We have 4 rapid prototyping machines (Objet, Stratasys and ZCorp), as well as multiple lathes, mills, edm's and finishing equipment. Keep in mind that all of this is just for prototyping purposes. We have manufacturing facilities in the US, PR, Germany and China for all production runs.

Hopefully there are some major corporations around you that you could get a internship at to get your foot in the door to have access to all of your interests.

Are you hiring?

[evandael]

^ yeah seriously, sounds like a great workplace

[BimmerTim]

I'm an ME in MPLS. I design and build high-vacuum chromium-nitride coating systems.

I use Solidworks, but I know Pro/E pretty intimately as well.

[HarryPotter]

Modeled back in the day on 3ds, made mostly guns and whatnot. Taught myself, it's not hard to get the hang of it.

[AndrewBird]

I worked with Autodesk Inventor mostly, but have also dabbled in SolidWorks (very similar programs). Most of my experience is in 2d though with AutoCAD.

Here is a steam engine I designed and drew:

[Raxe]

Used to fool around with 3ds Max and Zmod, lost interest a few years ago. Mostly just made cars for Need for Speed mods.

[TwoJ's]

I'm an ME in MPLS. I design and build high-vacuum chromium-nitride coating systems.

I use Solidworks, but I know Pro/E pretty intimately as well.

The company I work for just bought a huge nitriding system from some company in Germany. It does nitride and then black oxide.