{"id":27681,"date":"2020-12-18T11:00:53","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/?p=27681"},"modified":"2020-11-17T07:40:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T12:40:49","slug":"festive-ceramic-plate-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2020\/12\/festive-ceramic-plate-tutorial.html","title":{"rendered":"Festive Ceramic Plate Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"

For this tutorial I wanted to demonstrate the use of the wrap feature against spline surfaces, so I chose to use the curved face of a plate to add a wrap embossed design. The DXF file for the holly design is available to download Holly DXF file<\/a>, you will need this to follow the tutorial. The full video is below at the end.<\/p>\n

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To create the plate profile, I sketched a linear profile of the plate and used revolve with thin feature. With the bowl revolved I used dome to create a rounded foot ring and filleted all the plates edges for a softer finish.<\/p>\n

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To create the embossed Holly design, I created 4 copies of the plate. The reason for this was because I couldn’t apply the whole Holly design at once, it would wrap as one whole shape. If I were to wrap into the same plate layering the wrap features, this would also become messy and you don’t get the desired effect. So using the Holly DXF file I wrapped the Holly leaves onto plate one. I then wrapped each Holly berry one at a time onto each of the other plates until each plate had a wrap design embossed onto them. Before I combined the plates into one solid body, I applied fillets to each wrap.<\/p>\n

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Before I used circular pattern on the Holly design, I applied the appearances, and while using circular pattern I ensured propagate visual properties was ticked so that when the design patterned, it patterned with the appearance attached, this can save a lot of time with more detailed appearance work.<\/p>\n

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To finish off the design, I added a small embossed design around the plate lip and filleted all the joining edges of the embossed designs so that it is more realistic as a ceramic ‘glazed’ plate.<\/p>\n

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