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For more information read our privacy policy.Architosh will never pass any of your information onto third parties.Interests AI / ML (artificial intelligence / machine learning in AEC or Manufacturing) AEC Industry CAD or BIM Architecture Visualization CAE / FEA and Simulation Technologies Computational or Algorithmic-aided design (AAD) CDEs or Cloud-based Project Management Technology Drones and 3D Laser Scanning and Measurement Systems MCAD and PLM Process and Plant CAD/BIM Robotics in AEC or Manufacturing VR / AR / MR Immersive Technologies During the presentation some sample printed output coming from SubD forms in formZ 8 direct to 3D printers were shown. The new SubD technology, as mentioned earlier, makes ideally clean meshes for 3D printing from which formZ has long been able to support out to the STL file format for 3D printers. In another example Matthew showed something that was a base for a table, a truly organic form that was biological and lively. In looking at these organic forms I couldn’t help but think of the award-winning work of Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. In our online meeting Matthew Holewinski demoed all these new features and showed some architectural forms that one could imagine being used on some ceiling application perhaps. The SubDs tools include a bridge tool that allows a user to bridge a form across two separate forms-and this is useful for various reasons. In essence SubDs allow the user to truly sculpt a form. Users will have the ability to grab any face and move it, stretch it, increase its size, et cetera. What SubD’s are really good for are organic modeling. We always want to have some ability to go back to the original cage of the SubD and pick points to move or increase or decrease the mesh’s grid points making things smoother or less smooth. “An excellent side benefit to some of this technology-is the excellent meshes it creates,” says Matthew Holewinski, Product Specialist at AutoDesSys.Ġ2 – formZ 8’s new Subdivision surface modeling tools include a “bridging” command as well as twist tools and more.įormZ is known not just for having the tools to create a form but also to go back and edit a form. A very nice tessellation of those surfaces actually lends itself very well to 3D printing.
Like pretty much any other SubD tool behind the scenes you still have the faceted polygonal object but with SubDs you get a scaleable curvature-based form in a editable, draggable cage. With any polygon shape you can convert it to a SubD. Product designers will find the SubDs the most useful but so will some architects and other types of users. “In essence SubDs allow you to do somethings best done with SubDs and then convert to another type of object like NURBS and take advantage of the functionality that formZ offers for manipulation, and export of NURBS objects,” says Kropp. The advantage of SubDs is that it allows you to create shapes very quickly-more so than what you can do with NURBS-but you can go back to NURBS. In a workflow sense you can actually start with a boxy type of form, use the SubD tools to create smooth forms and then convert those back to NURBS.
Knopp notes that while SubD modeling isn’t often thought of as a modeling technology for architecture, per se, it does open up a new avenue for way of creating some smooth forms very quickly.” The new SubDivision modeling technologies introduces a whole new suite of tools and new ways of accomplishing things. “It is giving a new tool for creation and exploration.” “formZ 8 strives to create tools for creating design through, solid modeling, surface modeling, NURBS modeling and now subDivision modeling,” says Kropp.
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