Grabcad mobile office design

Designed in Siemens NX8

Less then 5 hours for design, and one more for good render, and this is result.

It started with Grabcad challenge GrabCAD Office Mobile Meeting Room. As I have some practical experience with fairs/exhibitions and I know that good "portable" office is what most companies need in such cases. This "portable" or mobile office  have all you need for meetings, short or long. This small office can make quiet and calm oasis in hurried and crowded halls or rooms/large offices. It is equipped with air conditioner that blow fresh air from back side of seats making good atmosphere for sparking, brainstorming session. It have power for portable devices, natural and artificial lighting, bis screen for presentations, can be equipped with video conference equipment, whiteboard, intercom etc.

Birdhouse (free CAD download file)

Designed in Siemens NX8

Last few days there is too many splines in my life :) so I had to make something simple to relax a little. For no special reason I designed this birdhouse... it is more like bird hotel then a house. I hope I will have house with yard someday so I can make this in real.
Model if free for download, please send me images if you make this birdhouse.

Wind turbine (free CAD download file)

Designed in Siemens NX6

In the light of some recent events I just had to make this model of wind turbine. It does not have many details but it is good for rendering and maybe some simulations and analysis. Please note that this is not blade of real wind turbine, and that this design is not product of any math, this is just a shape that I found on internet and make it look little smoother, so any use of this model is on your own responsibility. If you find this model useful for some purpose other then making renderings please let me know, I will be truly grateful.

Football ball, parametric model (free CAD download file)

Designed in Siemens NX6

Lot of designs done in CAD softwares are parametric models. It mean that model is defined by relationships, constrains and formulas, and that by changing one part of model you will change all parts that are somehow connected to it. Some of challenging models are those who are made to depend on only one variable parameter. I like to make that kind of design because it challenging, at least for me it is.

Egyptian pyramid (free CAD download file)

Designed in Siemens NX6

This is a model of Egyptian pyramids, same proportions, but instead feet i used mm as measurement unit. I tried to make it with 200 levels of stone blocks, but it killed NX (i tried to subtract shape of all 200 levels of stone in one operation...) so I tried little modest variation with around 50 levels. hope that you will enjoy this model.

StarWars Jedi Ligtsaber (free CAD download file)

Designed in Siemens NX6

From 19th century and flintlock weapons we jump to far future and present Jedi lightsaber. Well... as this is my first Jedi weapon I hope it look like lightsaber. I think that Star Wars have lot of interesting ideas for models, but i am not sure if I like to do that kind of design. I did this saber only because i was asked to make it...

Apple logo 3D (free CAD download file)

Designed in Siemens NX6

3D model of Apple logo, once bitten apple... I was making iPhone5 model and when I put apple logo on it's back, I just couldn't resist to make that apple in 3D.

iPhone 5 (free CAD download file)

Designed in Siemens NX6

THIS IS NOT OFFICIAL IPHONE5 DESIGN, this is just my CAD interpretation of information from internet (page1 and page2).


Download links are at bottom of the page...

Poached egg (free CAD download file)

Designed in Siemens NX6

Well what to say about this model. It was middle of the night and I was in funny mood so I made one unusual model. this is 5 minute model, actually it took me three times more time to make renders then to make a model.

Relief map 3D (free CAD download file)

Designed in Siemens NX6

Old model of island, something I done a while ago. and one more way to use CAD software, there is much better solutions for this but this was fun to make.

model IGES file

Beer mug models (free CAD download file)

Designed in Siemens NX6

This was fun project! It took me less then hour to make models and more then three to find and set texture for this render. But at the end CHEERS!

DNA model (free CAD download file)

Designed in Siemens NX6

Model of DNA, great for renderings.

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model IGES file
model STEP file

Perfume bottle model 2 (free CAD download file)

Designed in Siemens NX6

Second design of perfume bottle, this time it is some kind of ellipse type with "shoulders" and ball cap. This time perfume look little better as I added small ripples on top surface of "liquid", but still not good as I would like it.

Tennis ball (free CAD download file)

Designed in Siemens NX6

I had to try to make that curve on tennis ball... and I almost did it. It is not perfect (so I will keep trying) but it is good enough for few good looking rendered images. 

Perfume bottle model (free CAD download file)

Designed in Siemens NX6

This is just a little excursion to glass design. I saw few nice renders of models like these so I had to try it myself. Thick glass look great but I do not know how to make liquid inside look like perfume?! So far it look like something between powder and colored mercury...

Book holders (free CAD download file)

Designed in Siemens NX6

Book holders, two models, completely different. Horse one is solid, look heavy and stable. Designed as metal plate with engraved horse head on it (horse head is not my model it is tribal .jpg I downloaded from internet). And second one is Fairy book holder, made of sheet metal. (fairy shape is not my model, it is tribal .jpg downloaded from internet)

Dolphins in heart (free CAD download file)

Designed in Siemens NX

Dolphins in heart model I made for my daughter :)
Point was that she was sitting next to me during whole process of design, she left when I stared to make edge blends, it was to boring for her.

3D tribal models (free CAD download file)

Designed in Siemens NX6

download this model

  This is just a exercise in transforming .jpg files in 3D. I used B&W tribal images from internet, then traced (vectorized) them in some of graphics software. then i exported file in some CAD format, most of these softwares can make .dxf (AutoCAD file format) file and it is good enough for this. Then I imported that file in NX, edited splines if needed and extruded splines to get this. 

Daft Punk 3D model (free CAD download file)

Designed in Siemens NX6

This is a model I designed for tutorial request. You can find tutorial here, and links for downloading a model are at bottom of this page. Please keep in mind that I made this model larger then it should be so if you download it before you use it it should be scaled down to 70-80% of original size, depending on head size of helmet user.

Sun Clock or Sundial (free CAD download file)

Designed in Siemens NX6

A sundial is a device that measures time by the position of the Sun. All sundials must be aligned with the axis of the Earth's rotation to tell the correct time. In most designs, the style must point towards true celestial north (not the north magnetic pole or south magnetic pole). That is, the style's horizontal angle must equal the sundial's geographical latitude. When the sundial reads by shadows, the shadow-casting object - the sundial's gnomon - may be a thin rod, or any object with a sharp tip or a straight edge.