From the course: Rhino: Designing for Consumer Electronics
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Creating part lines - Rhino Tutorial
From the course: Rhino: Designing for Consumer Electronics
Creating part lines
- Next, let's focus on a detail many designers either completely forget or purposefully avoid, thinking it's just too tricky. Of course I'm talking about parting lines. This is where our case is separated into multiple pieces for both manufacturing and assembly. Let's take a look at a couple products to see if we can develop a strategy before we tackle our design here. In this computer mouse example, we can see a lot of different part lines and they're there for multiple reasons not just molding and separation, but also, sometimes, different materials or things that need to move or open. This car is another great example of seams and body panels that most people don't even notice. This probably has 12-15 separate pieces of sheet metal, maybe even more. But the end result is something that is still very striking and aerodynamic. So part lines a lot of times can help add contour or visual interest to products. Let's check a couple diagrams here to see if we can determine our strategy…
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