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  Stephen Nyberg 10 months ago

  I gave it go and here is what I came up with. I hope you like it.

  Calla Lily

  *** Note *** I am running Windows and SolidWorks on a mac and don't know how to take a screen shot. I attempted to make a video to show how I made the flower but the video does not show the feature tree or my mouse where I was trying to point to things. I hope between the video and these steps you can get an idea of how I made this flower.

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  Calla_Flower.avi, 16.4 MB
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  1. Step 1

     Petals
     -I opened up a new sketch and place the picture of the flower in the back ground.

     

  2. Step 2

     -then I traced a profile on one side of the petal with the spline tool.

  3. Step 3

     -I did an offset entities and then closed the ends with short line segments.

  4. Step 4

     -in a new sketch I made a spiral to the shape of the petals.

  5. Step 5

     -pierce the two sketches together and do a sweep.

  6. Step 6

     -I then made a plane that bisected where the petals overlap and drew a profile of an arc. This was used to cut away the petals to give the flower the proper shape.

  7. Step 7

     -Added various fillets to shape and cleanup the petals

  8. Step 8

     Pistol
     -sketch of a circle at base of petal

  9. Step 9

     -sketch of smaller circle where top of pistol should end

  10. Step 10

      -profile sketch between two circles

  11. Step 11

      -loft using the above three sketches.

  12. Step 12

      -The top face of pistol cleaned up with a fillet

  13. Step 13

      Stem
      -Made a circle below the petal and pistol and did a simple extrude boss down for the strait part of the stem

  14. Step 14

      -Made a circle at the base of the petal and stem (that would merge all the bodies)

  15. Step 15

      -created four guide curves from the circle to the top of the extruded boss and made a loft.

  16. Step 16

      -cleaned up steam with fillets

  17. Step 17

      enjoy

      

  1. 
     Stephen Nyberg 8 months ago

     Here is the first response I have seen from someone who used this tutorial. I would love to see more!

     colla flower

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  Tomica Vukovic 11 months ago

  On my opinion, if you wish it to make from sheetmetal - make two diferent forming tool to produce two leafs and join in assembly stage.
  Second way is to use a loft surface command but you must predict a thickness of calla flower beacuse adding thickness without predicting this, always lead in error when you use that feature.

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  4288885b 10 months ago

  actually i made a calla flower using pro-E .You can do it by using a simple swept blend command by defining the trajectory as well as the changing cross section at regular intervals. here is a model that i made

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• 
  Tomica Vukovic 10 months ago

  Very beautiful flower. If you use a transparency to model it will be better view to all part of Calla flower.

  Good job.

  1. 
     Stephen Nyberg 10 months ago

     Thanks. I will have to see what that looks like with the transparency on.

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  John Frangella 10 months ago

  excellent work!