{"id":165,"date":"2012-06-14T15:09:23","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T19:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/paint-tray-and-roller"},"modified":"2012-06-14T15:09:23","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T19:09:23","slug":"paint-tray-and-roller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2012\/06\/paint-tray-and-roller.html","title":{"rendered":"Paint Tray and Roller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e201630692a9e5970d.jpg\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Paint Tray and Roller\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451706569e201630692a9e5970d image-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e201630692a9e5970d-800wi.jpg\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Paint Tray and Roller\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week I decided to model a paint tray and roller as I enjoy painting and it seemed like it would be a fun project.&#0160; I started the tray by shelling out the basic shape.&#0160; A series of sweeps where used to create the ribs on the inside of the tray as well as the structural reinforcement around the feet and rim.&#0160; The roller was made using a sweep for the arm and then lofts were used to make the handle of it.&#0160; The paint was created by making a separate body in the paint tray for the bulk of the paint.&#0160; The paint on the incline was made by creating a split line to break up the faces.&#0160; This allowed only parts of faces to be colored giving the illusion that excess paint had been rolled of the roller in that one area.&#0160; Feel free to download my model below and check out the details of how I made it.&#0160; I hope you enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>Ian Jutras<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"asset  asset-generic at-xid-6a00d83451706569e201630692aba7970d\"><a href=\"https:\/\/solidworks.typepad.com\/files\/paint-tray-and-roller.zip\">Download Paint Tray and Roller<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I decided to model a paint tray and roller as I enjoy painting and it seemed like it would be a fun project.&#0160; I started the tray by shelling out the basic shape.&#0160; A series of sweeps where<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2012\/06\/paint-tray-and-roller.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":1276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5202,4015],"tags":[3930,4642,4729,4730,4728,3931,4731,4459],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-2","category-mechanical-engineering","tag-cad","tag-loft","tag-paint","tag-paint-roller","tag-paint-tray","tag-solidworks","tag-split-lines","tag-sweeps"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}