Case Study Design
Kare FRANDSEN, a young and talented student at the famous Danish Design School has designed a prototype of the cradle for his future child.
In order to plan the industrialization of this new product, Kare Frandsen wanted to digitize his prototype.
Digitizing such an object was a real challenge: the superbly shaped egg-shaped form had no specific reference points and was particularly difficult to digitize.
During the Code09 Trade Fair (23rd to 29th August, 2009), we suggested that he try to digitize the cradle with Rhinophoto.
Each step in images:
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- Disassembly to remove the cradle support legs then installation of the coded and non coded targets on the cradle body, - installation of the reference rule to determine the scale of the cradle body - A series of photos of the upturned cradle body are taken |
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- Other photos of the rest of the cradle body are taken thanks to Rhinophoto technology which allows digitization of the entire object in one single project "Relative" digitization allows the object to be held manually while the photos are taken |
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| - Rhinophoto calculates the 3D point in just a few minutes, |  |
| - support legs are reassembled on the shell and a few targets are added (existing targets on the shell are kept) - A new series of photos are taken and added to the project in Rhinophoto |
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| - Calculations take less than one minute and the corresponding support leg points are added to the Rhinophoto project (the points are not oriented as Rhinophoto does not have the 3D position for the moment) |  |
| - One more click and the points are correctly oriented thanks to one of Rhinophoto's special commands. |  |
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– … which allow the cradle shell curves to be calculated |
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| - The last step : creation of the 3D model with Rhino. |  |
| Time required for digitizing : 1h30 (for all steps; support leg disassembly, target positioning, photos, calculations, support leg re-assembly, new target positioning, photos, target removal) | |