@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.
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.
@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.
Its a hard chivaunte clay. A plastercine with a high hard wax contenet. You warm it up to about 45 C to trowel it on and then at about 20 C it is like candle wax
Visually, things look different in true 3d than with 3d models on a 2D screen, not to mention it's easier to look at a to-scale size model and get a grasp for the end product than what you think it might be like from a small, flat image. For the most part, computers take care of the designing and milling of the rough shape, but requires a steady human hand to smooth impurities. Also, you can't beat a model's ability to test for aerodynamic wind drag.
Because human beings seek physical interaction by nature. When people go to car shows and are shown concept cars, they would rather see physical models they can walk around than projected images on a screen.
why use clay? I don't seem to get it.. these days we have computers that can do this at 100 times the speed, while being a 1000-fold more accurate.. in full 24bit full color, at 120 FPS (with a decent three videocard setup in a high-end computer). Can someone please enlighten me as why to use clay models?!
yea this vid is kind of false lol when i did my internship a VW in california they used the sclupting machine for every thing except for when they smooth it out, its the easiest job ever lol
that smile at the end, show a happy Desinger!
This is my Dream Job! =)
@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.
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.
@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.
Its a hard chivaunte clay. A plastercine with a high hard wax contenet.
You warm it up to about 45 C to trowel it on and then at about 20 C it is like candle wax
Visually, things look different in true 3d than with 3d models on a 2D screen, not to mention it's easier to look at a to-scale size model and get a grasp for the end product than what you think it might be like from a small, flat image.
For the most part, computers take care of the designing and milling of the rough shape, but requires a steady human hand to smooth impurities.
Also, you can't beat a model's ability to test for aerodynamic wind drag.
the reason they use clay models is because it is clay and it is a physical model you can touch and feel, it can easily be changed as well
hard work and time
can't believe that dude controlling the mill wasn't wearing any safety specs...eyes like teflon
Are you Polish? By the way, I love this stuff!!!
holy! i wana make clay models too!
Because human beings seek physical interaction by nature. When people go to car shows and are shown concept cars, they would rather see physical models they can walk around than projected images on a screen.
I image it's pretty hard to get both sides of a car the same - mirrored of course. Do you use any tricks to get them the same?
do you have any idea what type of clay they using?
why use clay? I don't seem to get it.. these days we have computers that can do this at 100 times the speed, while being a 1000-fold more accurate.. in full 24bit full color, at 120 FPS (with a decent three videocard setup in a high-end computer).
Can someone please enlighten me as why to use clay models?!
using clay is quite primitive. they should do it all in CAD with really good 3D goggles
Whic volkswagen is this
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Safety glasses???? I don't need no safety glasses!!!!! I can easily dodge one of those clay chips flying at my face at over 100 MPH!!!!
yea this vid is kind of false lol when i did my internship a VW in california they used the sclupting machine for every thing except for when they smooth it out, its the easiest job ever lol