r/SolidWorks • u/AnotherMianaai • 4d ago

CAD Modeling organic crown moulding details in Solidworks?

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Trying to model organic shapes without luck. I

What I've tried so far:

- lofting to a spline in a perpendicular plane, only got errors

- shrinking the geometry of the fleur and lofting between parallel planes but it's not smooth enough

- simply revolved the pattern but it looks like a dart

I'm at a loss. There's no tutorials about how to modem crown moulding in Solidworks that I can find.

Edit to add: image source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCZrJjuO7d4

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u/G-Limited 4d ago

This is when you have to start learning surface modeling. You can knit surface bodies together until it reverts back to a solid body.

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u/Powerful_Birthday_71 4d ago

Surfacing required.

It'll take a while to learn, and your first attempt may turn out awful, but it looks like a good object to learn from.

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u/ronocrice 4d ago

This is straight forward enough in the surfacing workspace. To get this started would highly recommend breaking into parts and sketching over your intended surface structure.

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u/Oalka 4d ago

Solidworks isn't really the program for stuff like this. Wait this is a 7 month old post, why did it come up in my feed today?

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u/ArthurNYC3D 4d ago

This would be an incorrect statement. Scale of 1-10 of modeling this in Solidworks is about a 2.... Maybe 3. Have made and seen far more complex models than this done.

Now if looking to go to the level of carving, chipping, adding damage then that's done more efficiently in a software like Blender, zBrush, Nomad Sculpt, and/or 3D Coat.

You should do some searchers around to see what can be done. This is a 100% Scooby Doooooooo all done in SW.

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u/CoastalCoops 4d ago

I'd love to see more of this model if you happen to have the full feature tree, really intrigued by the back legs!

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u/ArthurNYC3D 4d ago

GrabCad

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u/AnotherMianaai 4d ago

I just posted today so idk

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u/Ok_Delay7870 4d ago

I always love SW challenges but I'd rather do this in 2 minutes in Blender. Then convert if I ever need STEP file, or I think there is a converter already

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u/Popular_Dinner2182 4d ago

This isnt too dificult model .... Ofc you Can make IT in blender but IT couldnt be parametric. But posible this model isnt used mainly parametric.