Computer Assisted Design

Here’s a funny video I found on the web somewhere (duhh YouTube!). It’s a music video about CAD. How great is that?

3D Mania [updated]

Past few days I’ve been playing around with doing some photorealistic renderings of stuff I’ve got CAD drawings for. This one turned out really nice although I got the focus a bit off. Was really cranking it with the bokeh (the blurry out-of-focus areas) with short depth of field.

Only six more hours to render a new one… haha!

Adding another one…
This time I’ve been trying to play around with transparent materials. Not really as realistic, but it’s still close and way better than any other renderings I’ve done before.

Real unreal

Did a pretty cool thing with a photo and a 3D rendering of the latest stem sample. Didn’t get the angle and projection exactly right, but it’s pretty close.

3D bike finished!

A while back I posted the 3D bike I’ve been working on. I finally found some time to get the seat and chain on there.  So now it’s pretty much finished with a brakeless setup. I went a little crazy with the colors when rendering and it’s not super fresh. Might try to render it in a program more suited for photorealistic stuff later.

All in all I’m really happy with how it turned out.  Hope you like it.

More 3D bike

Updated my 3D bike project with cranks and pedals.
The cranks are just a quick sketch of Odyssey Wombolts (that I currently run) and the pedals might or might not be in the works as an Eject product.

[Edit: Updated the 3D bike again. Now with new rims and spokes and nipples. “Laced” up!]

Virtual bike

Here’s a little thing I’ve been playing around with lately. Over the years I have made many drawings of different parts and I just figured it could be a cool thing to put it all together into a complete bike. The frame, fork, bars, stem and front hub are already available as products. The rims, tyres and barends are just mock-ups and the rear hub plus grips are in the planning stages.

When I’m finished with this one all the parts will be 100% the same as the production parts, just that they’re in computerized form. Pretty cool, or geeky. You decide.

What’s that front page about?

In case you were wondering about that, here’s the deal.

For many years I’ve been doing quite a bit of CAD stuff, such as drafting and solid modeling as a hobby and as you know I started out doing the Eject thing on my own before teaming up with Simple for the Eject parts since I was doing a lot of other drafting/design work for them.

And now I feel ready to take it one step further and take on more work. I’ll still work and collaborate as much as always with Simple, but apart from that I’ll offer my services to do drafting and solid modeling work for anyone who as an idea for a part/frame or whatever and want some drawings made up. Even if it’s just a rough idea I can still help and work out the details.

Within a week or two I’ll have the business part of the website online. So if you need help or know anyone who might need some drafting done. Be sure to shoot me an e-mail.