VW Design - From CAD to clay model

This video documents the various steps that lead from a CAD model to a 1:1 scale clay model. More at http://www.carbodydesign.com/archive/2006/12/07-vw-design-videos/

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• vw
• volkswagen
• car
• design
• cad
• model
• clay
• modelling
• cnc
• milling

[CustomLexus]

i wanna do this when i grow up.

[DeStryke51]

holy! i wana make clay models too!

[DanFrederiksen]

using clay is quite primitive. they should do it all in CAD with really good 3D goggles

[PerspectiveEngineer]

Make the world a better place, punch

An industrial designer in the face.

Cars, shoes, toilets ...ugly form Lousy function for the last forty years. It's a good thing your granddaddy owns the company. Or you would be homeless.

You have no real talent and your lifes have been wasted.

On making crap that was better before you "Improved it. "

[AgasVag1]

People this is how its done: 1) Use CAD (Alias) design the car then 2) CNC mill scale model (1/6) or physical prototype 3) revise model finish by hand 4) scan the revised model 5) put it again in to CAD to refine it ( check for symmetry problems) These 5 steps are repeated till they get what they are looking for. Then a cnc machines electrodes from copper or graphite to EDM machine steel molds for the actual production of the car.

[FutebolFanatico001]

hey now, that's cheating

[WJHHunterston]

A job in my past I did for 7.5 years, amazing how hand made work can be done well enough to appear to be 'machine made' and fool everyone. They don't even believe you did it unless they see you doing it.

[ilia93]

how do they get the car perfectly symmetrical ...by hand ?

[RouteZeroDesign]

@Indutchtrial

Industrial is just a word that clay distributors use jack up the price; clay is clay.

Weight is relative. I buy it in four kilo bags, so it is both as heavy and as light as any other material that I can buy in four kilo bags.

Smell would depend on the brand and how strong an olfactory sense you have.

Any brand that i've used has came with an oil based binding agent. Water based binding agents are air drying and only really suitable for sketch models and ergonomic studies.

[Indutchtrial]

@RouteZeroDesign

Its industrial clay .. Light weight, no smell, no oils etc..

[RouteZeroDesign]

@MarijnStevens The clay is just ordinary modeling clay, at least thats whats on the bag says when we get it.

Make sure it doesn't have fibers in it, these are used as support for pottery applications, but mess up surface finishing for detailed models. Also, make sure to get kiln dry clay as opposed to air dry.

Air dry sets too quickly and is more prone to cracking.