Hello everyone welcome back to PJ Chen Design Channel. Today we're going to talk
about this wire construction, and how to manipulate it and get it into more complex
form. Are you ready? Let's get started
Before we start building this bead or wire construction, we kind of need to
understand the structure as you can see on the top I have 1, 2, 3, & 4 look like a
teardrop shape on the top, and the same thing on the bottom as well, and
it's kind of puzzle it together. So that will be the structure that we have.
Let's starting with the sphere. We are going to the top view, and let's go ahead
to create any of the sides that is going to fit into your design, then I'm
going to use the "Create UV Curve", and we are going to create a UV curve to
flatten the sphere into this structure, and we're going to come into the top
view. This is where we're going to work on it. For the top view, I'm going to
separate them as our structure for four sections, so I'm going to explode it
this curve, and on both top and the bottom, I'm going to use the "Divide" command to
divide them into the 4 sections. so first we are going to use the
line work to link in between those points, and I'm also gonna use the
midpoint to the midpoint, so it's cutting into 8 sections right there.
The first section that I'm going to have, I'm gonna use the "arc", snapping into the
midpoint, because I don't have a midpoint here to snap, I'm going
to have that one be spited by this point there. I then I have this little
section there. We're gonna use the arc tool and snapping here to here, so this is our
top element. I'm going to move it down here. So that is the first
element. I'm gonna have that to mirror to the other side, and we kind of have it
to be a puzzle looking thing. so I'm just gonna have that one to go into this
side. Then they can be puzzle now. We need to find out a curve in
between, so I'm going to use the commands called "blend" we're going to blend the
curve from here to here. Now we have this element there. We almost get
the teardrop there so let's go ahead to use the "mirror" to mirror to the other
side. We no longer need that. That's just helping us to find a curve
that we need. This is the shape that we need so we are going to use the "joint",
and then let's go ahead to make it smaller. The reason I want to make it
smaller is because I want to create this gap is for the wire. so let's go
ahead to copy those there
I'm also going to copy those to the other side, by mirror to the other
side, and let's take a look on what we have. With those top 4, because
it's gonna be puzzle looking I'm going to move it from this point to the
midpoint, so you kind of see what I have here is the gap in between. That will be
the wire and everything in the middle will be trim. The reason I have the one
on the bottom 4. I have them hanging outside is because when we flow it back
this two will meet at where the seam is. So let's go ahead to use this two
straight line to trim off this one, and this one. Now everything is done,
we're going to flow this back to the surface, so we can trim it.
Before we do that. Just make sure everybody is joined together, and we also
need to join those back for our "flow along surface", so we're gonna join this
and make them into the surface. We're going to use the flow along surface.
Let's go to flow along surface, and we're gonna pick up the object not a middle
one, and we're gonna pick up the base surface, and we're gonna pick up the
target surface. okay so now we will have something like this. Those will be the
line that we are going to use to trim the surface. so let's use the "trim" command.
And we're gonna come in here. Sometimes get a little bit dizzy, but
let's go ahead to trim, you kind of need to move around, so you will see better.
You don't want to trim the place we are going to represent as a wire.
Sometimes you will trim. You feel like Why it only trimming half of it.
it is because they are complicated lines there so we just need
to make sure we are not trimming the wrong place. As you can see we
have some little extra need to clean out. Like little triangle here.
Checking on everything and see if you trim everything's there. Now we
have this is done. So this is like a single surface is being trimmed but we
still can manipulate it if it we want to. I'm gonna keep it like this.
Let's make it into the solid by giving a thickness.Let's do offset the surface.
I'm going to offset one millimeter, and that is a good direction so then we
will have something like this. Now we have this there we can stop it
here, or we can do something even more. Let's go to the top view I'm going to
copy and paste at the same place, and I want to rotate it a little bit for 20.5 degree.
So you can get it a little bit more complicated or you can just
freehand rotate it for whatever it is gonna look good for you. Sometimes you
can rotate it in other angle, maybe in this angle. so it's a lot to play with to
make a variety different type of bead. I hope you enjoy the video, let me know how
you are doing, and anything else you would like to see for the jewelry design. Thank
you for watching. I'll see you next.