Evaluation of CAD
This year i have learnt so much as I first started with very minimal skills in computers. My first task was to look up jewellery designers and makers that use CAD and CAM. I found many contemporary designers such as Mathias Bengtsson and Isabella Liu, both of them use traditional techniques combined with CAM and CAM. There are a lot of jewellery outlets that use CAM to design bespoke rings for the customers and the casting factories use CAM and CAM to mass produced jewellery.
The next task was to write a written report about CAD and CAM with the history of jewellery. I included the pre industrialisation and industrialisation to modern plastics, then i wrote about the cost advantages and the disadvantages of CAD and CAM. I also wrote an analysis of the impact that CAD has had on the contemporary design Crafts industry which i found interesting and informative.
I have researching many contemporary jewellery designers and found they all have blogs and on line shops using social media as a way to sell and make them self’s known. I have got myself an instagram account and a weebly account. The weebly account is to keep a record of the digital work i have done and this can be used in future to build up my work and hopefully be able to sell jewellery from this site when I leave college.
For my digital work I have learned how to use the basic tools on adobe illustrator, being able to make and edit shapes, I have learned how to use the stoke and fill, the size of stroke is important for the depth of the laser cutter to cut or etch. I have learned how to make patterns and add them to the brush tool. I have learned how to use the effects 3D tool to make 3D images from a 2D drawing. I have also learned a lot from watching tutorials on line such as using the shear tool and the pen tool. I have also learned how to use the 3D printing apps such as tinker cad and morphi,
I found the 3D printing software very easy to use and really enjoyed creating designs.
I have made body adornment jewellery to raise money for a charity, the charity I chose was the RNLI life boats as i had already had a piece of acrylic i had previously etch with using the laser cutter, I designed the etch using adobe illustrator. Next i used adobe illustrator to draw my design for the jewellery and had it cut using the laser cutter.
I have been learning how to use photoshop, i can edit photos by cropping and brighten up my photos using image adjustment levels which are shadow, mid tones and high lights. I can use the layers and i have learned some of the basic tools. I can also place 3D models that I created on tinkered cad into environments. I have also learned how to use a digital camera making built points on areas such as the depth of field, exposure value, shutter speeds, exposure modes, quality and IOS.
I have enjoyed using adobe illustrator and photoshop software and will continue to learn from online tutorials over the summer and hope to achieve a higher grade in computer aided design in my second year.
This year i have learnt so much as I first started with very minimal skills in computers. My first task was to look up jewellery designers and makers that use CAD and CAM. I found many contemporary designers such as Mathias Bengtsson and Isabella Liu, both of them use traditional techniques combined with CAM and CAM. There are a lot of jewellery outlets that use CAM to design bespoke rings for the customers and the casting factories use CAM and CAM to mass produced jewellery.
The next task was to write a written report about CAD and CAM with the history of jewellery. I included the pre industrialisation and industrialisation to modern plastics, then i wrote about the cost advantages and the disadvantages of CAD and CAM. I also wrote an analysis of the impact that CAD has had on the contemporary design Crafts industry which i found interesting and informative.
I have researching many contemporary jewellery designers and found they all have blogs and on line shops using social media as a way to sell and make them self’s known. I have got myself an instagram account and a weebly account. The weebly account is to keep a record of the digital work i have done and this can be used in future to build up my work and hopefully be able to sell jewellery from this site when I leave college.
For my digital work I have learned how to use the basic tools on adobe illustrator, being able to make and edit shapes, I have learned how to use the stoke and fill, the size of stroke is important for the depth of the laser cutter to cut or etch. I have learned how to make patterns and add them to the brush tool. I have learned how to use the effects 3D tool to make 3D images from a 2D drawing. I have also learned a lot from watching tutorials on line such as using the shear tool and the pen tool. I have also learned how to use the 3D printing apps such as tinker cad and morphi,
I found the 3D printing software very easy to use and really enjoyed creating designs.
I have made body adornment jewellery to raise money for a charity, the charity I chose was the RNLI life boats as i had already had a piece of acrylic i had previously etch with using the laser cutter, I designed the etch using adobe illustrator. Next i used adobe illustrator to draw my design for the jewellery and had it cut using the laser cutter.
I have been learning how to use photoshop, i can edit photos by cropping and brighten up my photos using image adjustment levels which are shadow, mid tones and high lights. I can use the layers and i have learned some of the basic tools. I can also place 3D models that I created on tinkered cad into environments. I have also learned how to use a digital camera making built points on areas such as the depth of field, exposure value, shutter speeds, exposure modes, quality and IOS.
I have enjoyed using adobe illustrator and photoshop software and will continue to learn from online tutorials over the summer and hope to achieve a higher grade in computer aided design in my second year.
Photoshop cc. placing 3D models in an environment.
I have designed a ring on tinker cad and used photoshop cc to place the ring design in to an environment. To do this I downloaded my tinker cad file as an object file and opened the OBJ file in photoshop. I then exported a background image and a environment map. Using the layers panel I opened the files and placed them in the different layers. To position the 3D object I used the orbit 3D camera mini controls that have crosshairs and arrows to get the object at the right angle and size to fit the hand (background image). To make the object smaller you can click the white box that is central to the crosshairs and drag outwards. the arrows are used to rotate the model. The light and the shadows can be adjusted with the 3D panel and infinite light, above that is a shadow bar to control the softness of the shadows, shadows help the model look more realistic. Texture can be added to the 3D model using colour undefined. The environment map is to give the image more realism when the picture is rendered. Depth of field can be added and used but this example of the hand and ring did not need this tool. The image is now ready to render which is the computers job. I have done this exercise as it is part of my professional development, because in the jewellery industry the image would be used to show a client what a designed piece of jewellery would look like before the piece is made. If the client was unhappy with the design there would be no waste of materials or time and is therefor more cost effective.
This is my first attempt at placing a 3D model