Hello everyone welcome back to PJ Chen Design. Today we aren't going to talk
about this 2-tone cross, and the most easy way to make this illusion of
crossing over type of the design. Are you ready? Let's get started
This video is not including the stone setting part. As I have been talked
about this in my other videos. If you like to check out the detail on all
type of a stone settings, you can check out my course. It's online, I will also
put the link at the description below. Let's take a look on how to model the
cross, because it is actually coming all kind of proportion. I don't really have a
specific one in mind, but I'm just gonna draw some sort of reference for
me to start with. So what I do first is I need to start drawing a line, I'm going
to use the arc tool, and snapping into this end point, and end point, and you
want to come over, and cross that point over there. As you can see, I'm going to
have another one cross over here, so we are going to draw another one snapping
into the end point, and come over something like that. If that is not
something that you like, you do need to move them up and down. You can actually
edit your control points to move it to the desired place that you have. Once
we have this one, I'm going to use in the mirror command, and move it to the other
side, and double check, if that is a proportion and everything that you like.
For example I may want to have those two point going just up a little bit, so it's
more central there. Once we have this, we are going to create the
profile. I'm not building the model in certain type of a
proportion, but you also need to make sure that the casting will survive. You
cannot go too thin under certain type of a design. So the best way to do
is drawing the profile on this side. As many of you
probably already know I like to use conic corners on the rectangle. Right
click on this icon. I'm going to start drawing something like this. So it is
more of the cushion there. In order to snip it correctly into my cross, I'm
going to find out where's the center. What you can do is you can first get a
line right there and put the dot right at the midpoint. That's one way to do it.
The other way to do it. We can go into the analyze and you have mass property,
and then you area click on the area centroid, then you click on this curve.
It will give you a dot right in the middle, so let's go ahead to group them.
The second one. This is the first curve that we have, which is the middle profile.
It's going to be thicker. I'm just simply going to make a copy with the gumball, and
make it slightly smaller, and that will be the end. So what we're going to do is
we're gonna make a bunch of copies. I'm going to use the copy command and
I'm gonna select this group for a smaller one, and let's snapping into the
point right at the center, and we're gonna make the copy on all the end there.
so and here, here, and here. At this point we don't really worry about
the orientation yet. We'll change it later. The second one we also gonna
make a copy, so I'm going to have one over here. Which is this one. It is gonna go
a little bit higher. Any part of the higher one, you want to have it right in
the middle and then the other one probably will be somewhere around here.
and somewhere around here. I just go ahead and change the color in red. It is
easier for you to see. Let's go take a look on the top view. Very important
part is we need to make sure that all the cross section is 90 degrees toward to
the sweep direction roughly. It doesn't have to be super 90-degree, but we want
to get something like this. So kind of using the gumball to change the direction
for all of them, and the one on the top and the bottom. I actually want to have
them 90 degrees exact. So what I do is I use a Gumball, and arc, and hold my SHIFT
command, so they will be 100 percent 90-degree to the construction plane.
Now we have something like this, we probably want to think about when this
coming over here, it might be touching. If you want to set the stone, you might need
to move this one in a little bit, so at least, you will have some room for the
stone setting, or something like that. We could move this out a little bit, and
the same or moving this guy out a little bit. Alright so now we have everything
set up, we are going to use the Sweep 1 command so sweep one and make sure every
time you have Record History is on. So we want to Record History as well.
The first one let's do this one. This is it's going to be your rail, cross-section,
and it tells it is unable to order the shape on the rail, and there is
nothing wrong. this is a rail this is cross section. So the things you might
experience is you have been grouping this dot or this point to this circle. So
then the computer have no idea what that is.
All we need to do is ungroup. So let's do one more time. Sweep 1 rail.
We're gonna go from this one, to this one, to this one. And make sure they all align
correctly. I like them to align to the place I don't see as much, so I want them
to align to the bottom. Make sure Record History is on. So we get our first one.
and we want to do the same to the rest of it.
Now we have it's done. We can now to edit a little bit. For example, we can move.
Since we have a record history, we're gonna move this up a little bit. So that
will give us this really nice curve here. If you like it have a more solid, we can
go ahead to select those control point over there, and bring
this down to the bottom, so that way you will have it solid all the way to the bottom
It kind of giving you two options to have. The second one. We also
want this one going up a little bit, or something like this. Let's take a
look on the top view. If you come over to the top view, and then you look at it, you
feel like okay you need more space. You can also move this one up a little bit.
Or something like that to change the gap that you have in the middle.
After that, all you need to do is put the stone right in the middle. Make sure they
all have a good contact, so you have a better casting. I hope you enjoyed the
tutorial today. If you'd like to know more about a stone setting. Don't forget
to click the link below. That has a whole class with a bunch of different type of
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