Hello everyone welcome back to PJ Chen Design. Today, we're gonna talk about this
belt buckle ring. It's been using in the fashion jewelry a lot. Let's take a look
on how to make it. Are you ready! Let's get started. So we're gonna starting
making a ring size. I'm going to set it radius for 8 and then we need to know
how long it is if it is straightening flat. So let's used to command call
"length", and it says 50.265. So I'm gonna make a straight line, and type a 50.265
and this mean, if this line this circle is being straightened,
and how long it's going to be. So let's gonna be our guideline, and we are going
to make a ring shank first. For our ring shank is going to be the same length, and
I wanted to type 50.265 and then it's gonna be the width
for 3.5, and the thickness, I think this is not too thick of a ring,
so either it 1 or 1.2 will work, so I'm just gonna type it 1 there.
This is the ring shank that we are going to have. We're gonna do the fillet
later, but let's go ahead and do the buckle part. On the buckle part, I'm just
gonna do it right here. Let's take a look on the top view.
I'm going to draw the shape of my buckle. I like to use this conic corners,
so let's right click on it, and use the center, and I can snapping into the
midpoint. so you kind of draw something look like this. You can make it more
rectangle if you want to. Okay, Now I have one there. I'm going to make
a copy holding the SHIFT and also use the Gumball, and then tap the ALT key there.
so then you will make a copy of it. Alright so I'm going to move this.
it is easier for you to see. If I'm going to change the shape, and then I kind of
changed shape like that. You notice right here. It is the kink. It's because now the
curve is degree 2, so we need to rebuild the curve to make it degrees 3. so that
way we can alter it better. I'll stay the same with the points
and they're coming over like that. Now let's do one more time, if I want
to change the shape, you can see the form flowing much better. So that is
one thing. The second thing I want, I may want to move this to the left a little
bit. Alright, we're gonna
bring back here to see if everything fitted well. You want to make sure after you
making into the solid. It will intersect. So I'm going to draw a curve using the
arc tool, and then it's gonna go from here to here, and something like this.
So what that is going to do is to say, from the top view, I want to have
a shape like that, but on a side view, I need that little bit curvature
over there, and then we are going to use the command is called curve from 2 view
and we're gonna pick up this curve and this curve, also this curve, and
this curve. So that way it gives us two new curves. Let me hide the old one so
that curve is something like this. All we need to do now is creating the
profile, so we're gonna do the conic corners. I gonna do with the three points
so quadrant, quadrant, and I want something going up for whatever high
that you like, and going a little bit rounded. so we're gonna do one more time.
Three point quadrant, two quadrant and going up like this.
This is going to be our profile to sweep, so let's give it a try, and see what's
the shape look like. We cannot do Sweep 2 Rails
Rail one, rail two, cross and cross section, and make sure the direction and
arrow is all in line, and we can close the sweep. and let's take a look on this.
So this is the element for the Belt Buckle. Let's moving in, and let's
moving into the center, so the easiest way is align those to the center, and
then you're gonna see something like this, and apparently we need to get it a
little bit lower. Alright anything lower than that is going to be chopped off. so
just make sure that this is the angle you like. If it is need to be thicker or
thinner or whatever that's gonna look good on the design.
Alright now we have this. The second things that we wanted to do is that pin
over there. This could be pretty easy. We're going to just draw a line
somewhere go from here and coming down to the middle. So this is where the pin
is going to be, and we are going to move that pin close to here. So it's easier to
see. We're just gonna go ahead and pipe it. We're going to pipe whatever
aesthetically fitting into your design, and it will look something like this.
Okay so let's do alignment one more time. Let's align horizontal to the
center, so everything look good over there. Okay now we have this, we need to
create the hole to make it look like it's coming out from the hole there. I
will suggest you actually punch a hole. we just need to have an impression of
the hole, so I'm going to snapping into somewhere in the middle, and I'm going to
draw a sphere just a little bit bigger than the pin, so something like this, and
let's move that sphere to the top. Let's go ahead to give it a try. We're gonna
use Boolean Difference, and this will be different out of that ball, and then so
let's take a look. It does look like it's coming
from something, but it doesn't go all the way so that ball will work.
We're gonna do ctrl-z, and then we're gonna have this
ball coming out the same distance, so copy ctrl-c, ctrl-v for paste, and we want
to move it out for four millimeter. Okay, do the same thing one more time. Move
that one out four millimeter too, and then you can do, you know, multiple, maybe
one more if you like to. and what I'm going to do is we are going to use
Boolean Difference. This will be different out from here.
When you look at the render, you might not look good
with the harsh edge there, so what I would like to do it's give a little bit
fillet, and let's do something really small maybe 0.1. It just looked much
better on the rendering as you can see over here, so for the comparison, you can
see this one is really nice and rounded. and this one is just too
machine looking. Let's go ahead to fillet this edge, and also this edge as well.
Okay so they are all nice and rounded. okay so now one more things that we
wanted to do is the belt buckle. It has a catch usually has a catch over there, so
I'm going to use the conic corners, again, we are going to draw something like this
and then we are creating a profile. so let's go ahead to move this one close
to here, and let's creating a profile, and again I'm gonna use the
conic corners, and this time, we're gonna do from the top view. So now what we
have is the Sweep 1 rail. This is the rail, this is the cross-section, and we're
gonna get something like this. Okay so this is going to slide it back to here.
and if it is too fat, you can kind of scale it down. We don't actually
need to make it functional, but we need to make it look like it is functional. However,
try not to have any gap in between, because you might have casting issues
over there. Okay so now we have this one, maybe a little bit thinner. As long as it
has that look, that will be fine. Now we have everything ready. Before we
do Boolean and everything. We want to make sure that we want to fillet first.
This is very important. In this case you want to fillet first before you Boolean Union together.
So let's go ahead to do the fillet, and let's try
the radius for 0.35, and we want to fillet, and we want to fillet
all these edges. Now it is filleted. let's double make sure everything is
aligned. So let's use the horizontal align to the center. We can
Boolean Union together. Okay once it's Boolean Union, we are going to trim the
bottom off, so I'm going to draw another box covering the entire things, and going to
the bottom, and we just need to do the Boolean Difference. This will be
different out of that. Now we have it flat, and it's ready to flow it
back to the ring. Let's go ahead to use the "Flow Along Curve". This object will be
flow and this is the bass curve, and this is the target curve. So if it
goes inside meaning that the Direction is not right. We're gonna do one more time.
we're gonna pick up this object, Enter, this time you wanna pick up the base curve
on this side, and target curve on the same side, so that's how you get this
Bell Buckle looking ring. This is today's Bell Buckle ring tutorial. I hope you
enjoyed. Please leave your comments below. let me know how you're doing, and I will
see you next!