| Price & Myers 3D Engineering works with organic shapes and materials to create elegant and extraordinary structures. By using SolidWorks, these structures can be designed in free-form, creating accurate geometries that retain engineering integrity and can be fabricated and manufactured without compromising design intent.
“We often work from initial designs and concepts presented as bent wire mesh models,” explains Tim Lucas, founding partner. “We then sit down with the architects or artists to translate these concepts into 3D models in SolidWorks.” Lucas and his team recently worked on a project to design a modern bandstand to be built on the terrace of the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill. “Using its free-form design capability, SolidWorks enabled us to develop the concept first presented by the architects,” says Lucas. “Once we had tweaked the design we captured all the engineering data and rationalised the design to ensure it could be built.”
Lucas and his team cut sections through the model to create the ribs that would form the structure of the bandstand. The model was also deconstructed to create drawings of the flat plywood sheets that would cover the ribs. “We created full-size drawings from SolidWorks to use as templates for the fabricators,” says Lucas. “The accuracy of the data and drawings is vital for creating such organic, free-form structures.” |
