Panthera aircraft

[Tiho Ramovic]

Hello guys, long time since my last post here. Because of my new job I had a little time to spend playing wit KS
Now I finaly got some time to spare and  I see very interesting stuff here spent an hour just admiring on some work you guys posted lately.
Here are the first renders, after quite some time, of an Panthera aircraft Ive made in solidworks and rendered, ofcourse, in KS. Ive also uploaded it on GrabCAD, so feel free to render it some more

https://grabcad.com/library/pipistrel-panthera-airplane-1

[TpwUK]

Yum yum

[Tiho Ramovic]

[Josh3D]

Very nice. The detail is incredible. The renderings are SUPERB!

[Speedster]

SolidWorks???  Good God!  Man, that is superb modeling- do you give lessons in surfacing?  Oh, and the renderings are beautiful!
Bill G

[Tiho Ramovic]

Thank you Josh, really nice to hear it since this was my first taste of KS after loong time

Thank you very much Bill, always loved your work, you wouldnt believe how much easier was this plane to make in solidworks compared to your models, I assume. Actually, fuselage of this plane (without wings) was made some time ago in one night for  contest isued by plane manufacturer (they gave us pretty good blueprints of actual plane) and it was done with 5 or 6 planar sketches and one lofted surface. Only recently Ive added some more details like landing gear and pitot tubes on wings, nothing special.

[feher]

WOW ! Great modeling buddy. The paint on the plane is excellent. I think what is missing is a ground shadow. You need something to really set the plane in the scene.
Other then that really nice job all around !
Thanks for sharing.
Tim

[DriesV]

Awesome model and renders!
@Bill:
Creating the fuselage, wing and other major surfaces cleanly should be pretty straightforward in SolidWorks. Where the fun (*sarcasm mode*) really starts in SolidWorks is when trying to create smooth blends (G2) between those surfaces. Sometimes (for whatever reason...) SolidWorks won't let you create curvature continuous surface transitions and when it does those transition surfaces often look wobbly/bumpy/spiky/....
In those situations -when lofts, sweeps, boundary surfaces all fail miserably- a fill surfaces often does the best job. I think it's funny that Fill Surface is one of the most powerful surface commands in SolidWorks, but can really only be used to patch up N-sided (3, 4, 5 or more edges) gaps or as a last call substitute when other commands fail.
What do you guys think?

Dries

[PhilippeV8]

Yum yum indeed !

[Tiho Ramovic]

Exactly as Dries said, filled surface tool is unavoidable when working with surfaces in Solidworks, on this model it was used maybe 2 or 3 times on some transitions near the wing tips. Sometimes fixing problematic geometry can be frustrating task but in most cases filled surface tool saved the day for me

[Chad Holton]

Welcome back - great modeling and renderings! 

[Tiho Ramovic]

Thank you Chad on your kind words. It is good to be back