Welcome back to PJ Chen Design. Today we are going to talk about this twisted
bangle and you can use as a stacking bangle as you change the decoration on
the top. Are you ready, let's get started!
We are going to starting at the front view. Let's to a circle, and this is the
bangle size. I'm going to set it for 60 millimeters, and then with this circle we
need to create a curve that is twisting around it, so we are going to use the
command is under the curve then you have this is called helix. With the helix
instead of the regular helix. It's going to do something like this look like a
spring. That's not what we're looking for. We wanted to use the helix and want to
come up to the option here, that you have the "around curve". so with this, we are going
to create a curve around that circle that we just created. Depends on how much
you want to go for how deep it is spinning, and I'm roughly going to look
at something look like this. So that will be the first one. Let me
turn it into the red color so that will be the first one we need to have. Another
one that's completely opposite, so I'm going to use the line, work from the
middle point, and snapping into this quadrant, and snapping into this quadrant
as well. So they'll give me a guideline over there to show the equal distance on
both sides of that quadrant, and then we are going to use the helix one more time
and we're going to use "around curve" again, and make sure we select the circle
that we have, and this time we want to snapping into this endpoint and let me
change color to a green color. Now you can see the red and the green they are
not touching but they are in opposite directions. I'm going to use
my favorite conic corners for the rectangle and I'm going to snapping into
this endpoint, and that endpoint and then coming up about whatever how thick that
you think it's going to be, and we are going to have.... let's go to the top
view, we're going to have something conic coners, looks something like
this, then I'm going to move that one by move command, snapping into the
midpoint, and we want to snap into the endpoint, so it's right in the middle
in between those two. Now we have those two, and as a rail, and then we have
this cross-section. We're going to go to the sweep rail and we're gonna go rail
one, rail two, cross-section and then we will create something like this. I also
will suggest you record the history, before you click anything done, so now you can
see this is a little bit fatter than what I have on my demo, but we
record a history, now if we want them to be skinnier, I can just skinnier like
this way, then it will come into the desired size that you want. Make sure
that before you end your command that you want to record history, so you can
get a real-time update or something like this. So I do like it to be skinnier
which also saves you more money on the casting metal. Now we have that,
we want to do decoration on top of it. We do need the curve. You can see I
have a curve right here, and I can just duplicate this edges and let's duplicate
this and turning into another color. It is easier for us to see. We also need
another curve. It's up to you but I like to have it symmetrical so actually
inside of it I need to have another curve right in the middle, so we are
going to since it is no curve to extract edge, so we want to extract
Isocurve. We want to pick up this surface and then it is not in the direction we
want, so we want to come over to the top. Let's toggle it, and then we'll have
something close like this. Now I have this one.
Let me turn into the blue color as well.
magenta okay so it's easier to tell. So you can see I have all the colors right
there. So for the decoration. I'm coming
over to my front view again, and I'm simply just drop a ball or a sphere and
for whatever size that you like. We need to make sure that it is a
a right place to start with. Let's take a look on the perspective. It looks
alright to me and then I'm also going to make a copy somewhere around here.
Now I have two of them. Let's deal with the one first, we are going to
use the command is under the transform and then we have Array Along Curve
this ball it's going to be array with this curve, and then you have this
dialogue coming up. I was trying using 180 and it looks fine so let's try and
see if that work, and it will ask you to select a Cplane coming into the
top view, and then you click on that, then you will have this. if this is too many
to you, you may want to do one more time by clicking this one this ball, and this
curve and then you want to reduce it they say 160, and click on the top view
and you can see if you still have too many or you want to adjust it. If you
like the decoration that you have there then you want to do the same with the
another side. Let's do the base curve is this curve, and we want to do 160 just
out of curiosity if we reduce another 20 and what does look like, and you also
want to record a history and you click OK
Choose the top view, and click. Look like 140 my look nicer. So I might want to
go back because this is like too connected and this I still can see the beads
because we record history, if you don't like the position and you kind of move
it, and everybody will kind of move it as well. So that's the benefit for record history
and all you need to do is to boolean it together, and then you can
assign different colors on the rendering. I hope you enjoy the video the new
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option. Wish you'll have a good holiday and see you next!