{"id":356,"date":"2010-12-12T18:40:44","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T23:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/modeling-a-butterfly"},"modified":"2010-12-12T18:40:44","modified_gmt":"2010-12-12T23:40:44","slug":"modeling-a-butterfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2010\/12\/modeling-a-butterfly.html","title":{"rendered":"Modeling a Butterfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e20147e09ee844970b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451706569e20147e09ee844970b\" title=\"Butterfly model 3D\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e20147e09ee844970b-800wi.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Butterfly model 3D\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>My colleague Come sent a report to me this week on the extensive use of SolidWorks in design schools.&nbsp; As a mechanical engineer, I spent a great deal of time in the machine shop with machined and sheet metal parts.&nbsp; But there is another side of SolidWorks, the side that industrial designers, artists, and consumer product designers use everyday to make amazing products.&nbsp; I wanted to share some of those techniques with you.&nbsp; With the help of Eliza Sosnina , design student who created this beautiful butterfly in SolidWorks, the video also helps to see how it was created with sweeps, lofts,&nbsp; and planes.&nbsp; This is the first part of two tutorials.&nbsp; Next week, the butterfly will be rendered.&nbsp; Marie<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"asset  asset-generic at-xid-6a00d83451706569e20148c6a84dc6970c\"><a href=\"https:\/\/solidworks.typepad.com\/files\/butterfly.sldprt\">Download SolidWorks Butterfly<\/a>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"asset  asset-generic at-xid-6a00d83451706569e20148c6a84dc6970c\"><span class=\"asset  asset-video at-xid-6a00d83451706569e20148c6a854ea970c\"><a href=\"https:\/\/solidworks.typepad.com\/files\/modeling-a-butterfly.mp4\">Download Video Modeling a Butterfly<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"475\" height=\"288\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/i1MIFfIZzsc?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"\/><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/i1MIFfIZzsc?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"475\" height=\"288\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;My colleague Come sent a report to me this week on the extensive use of SolidWorks in design schools.&nbsp; As a mechanical engineer, I spent a great deal of time in the machine shop with machined and sheet metal parts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2010\/12\/modeling-a-butterfly.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":2197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5202,5215,5205,5211],"tags":[5115,4138,5116,3930,4642,4151,4386],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-2","category-biology-2","category-stem-course","category-technology-2","tag-animal","tag-art","tag-biology","tag-cad","tag-loft","tag-plane","tag-sweep"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","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\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}