Hello everyone welcome back to PJ Chen Design Channel. Today we are going to
talk about this bead setting wire construction ring. Are you ready? Let's
get started!
when we start. We always want to starting with the ring
size. Let's set it up for the diameter for 16 millimeter, and then we want to
think about how wide these thing is going to be. Let me go ahead to use
the surface tool, then you have extruded surface, and you want to extrude it
something like that. This is how wide you want it to be. Then we want
to start drawing the curve. I'm gonna use the arc tool, and I gonna starting
here, here, and drawing something like this. I mean you can draw something really big
or really small. It's up to you, and depends on how you like those to curve
to be. Now we are in the ghost view, we can kind of see it. If you want them to
be touched, you might want to get them a little bit closer. You can make them
asymmetrical or whatever that you like. so we basically get those two curves.
Next thing, we wanted to do, we want those two curves on that surface. So let's go ahead
to project this to the surface, and then we will get those to curves. We no longer
need this original curve, so let's just go ahead to delete it, and this is what
we can see over there. On the bottom, I would like to have it as
close as possible, so I'm going to lock my original one, and I'm gonna quickly
draw a straight line right there, and using that straight line to trim the
bottom curve that I don't need. Now I make the bottom open at this
point, if you feel like the button is too wide, you can go ahead to make it smaller.
Since we project this curve, it has a lot of point right there. We
can go ahead and use the rebuild tool, and we'll rebuild it to make it less. so
It will be easier to edit. Maybe a little bit less
to be 12, As long as the shape is not changing too much. You will be fine, so
I'm gonna do the same thing over here. To turn it into 12. Now I can kind
of work with it. To make it closer, if I want to. For example, turn on the
control point, and select those point on the bottom, and kind of have them come
in a little bit more like this. So they will go in a little bit more right this
way. Same thing I can do on the other side is
I can move in a little bit, if I do want them to come in a little bit closer, so
it's up to you about the design that you wanted to do, but I highly encourage you
to try a few more times to actually get a flow really well. Now we have the curve
roughly going to what we want, we want to connect those curves back, so I'm
going to use the blend command. We are going to blend the curve from this point
to this point, and you can adjust it if it is too long. I'm going to move it back
just a little bit, so it's not overlapping too much. We gonna do it one
more time. This time with this end, and this end, and again, if it's too much you
can kind of move it back. I do want them to overlapping a little bit on the
bottom, but I don't want it to be too extreme. Once everything is done, we
are just gonna go ahead to join everybody.
It seems likes a little bit kink over there, so we are going to rebuild it.
Turn it into one big curve so I'm going to use the commands rebuild, and we want
to get a little bit more point. Let's do 20 over there, and we'll get the curve
like this. It looks nice to me. We're gonna make a ring out of it, but
you look at the front view, notice that it's no longer follow the circle. The
ring is is no longer rounded. What I like to do is we're going to do the same
thing again, we are going to pick up the originals
which is our ring size, and I'm going to surface- extrude- straight like this.
Okay and we are going to instead using a project that we used, we wanted to have
the curve from this one and pull it back to this surface, and you can see like
it's just a little bit different. We can delete the original one, and keep this
one. You can see from the front view it's back to a circle again.
Let's delete this surface. This is the curve that we want. so what we
need to do now is to creating a cross-section. I'm gonna set it about
1.7 millimeters stone and I like to have my ring shank a little bit
thicker so I would like to make a conic corner, and it's about 2 millimeters up
2 mm wide, and two millimeter up and they make it a slightly corner
like this, so we are going to use the Move command to move this one from the
endpoint or the midpoint, and we want to snapping into the intersection over
there. Now this is what we have. Let's do a test, and see how it goes.
We're going to use the commands called sweep one rail, this is the rail, this is
the cross section, and then you can have it go all the way around. Remember you
want to turn on the history, if you want to change you later that will be great.
Now we are looking at the bottom. the bottom this seems a little bit too
close at this point, what you can do is you can turn on a control point for
curves that we have, and kind of edit the point if you want to. Since this is a
projected curve, it may not able to be edited smoothly. You might want to re-project
it. Another thing that we can do to fix this bottom looking thing is we can
come into the top view, and we wanted to chop it where it has the connection
there. So let's go ahead to chop it somewhere around here, and
somewhere around there depends on what's the thickness that you
want. So we're gonna pick up those two, and we're gonna trim it off
anything in between, so let's trim off this one, and also this one. So
now we have those two shapes over there. So this is a continual piece. It's hard
to trim each other, and there's no split line. The one on the right side, it
has a split line over there. We can actually explode it, and now we can pick up both
of them, and have them to trim each others.
Now they become one piece. We can kind of join it back. From this part, you
cannot split into two, so we are just simply gonna split whatever, so
let's go through the top view with this one. We are going to split this one into
two, so we are going to use these split come in with this curve over there.
Now you become two parts. once you're turning into two parts, we can select
both of them, and trim each other for the place that we don't want.
then let's joined back once it is done. Now we got to parts over there. We
are going to use the comments called duplicate edges, and we want to placate
this edges and that edges and make sure that you join them together.
Now we have this as a cross section, we are going to use the sweep one rail, and
this is going to be our rail. We gonna sweep from here to here, so now you can
have a section that's much better into one section over there. After that, you
can apply the bead setting, and I have a whole playlist of stone setting.
it's been taught in another video, and I also have a course for stone setting.
if you are interested that I have the link at the description below.
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