How to model calla flower like this on pictures??

Stephen Nyberg

11 Jul, 2012 08:04 PM

I gave it go and here is what I came up with. I hope you like it.

Calla Lily

*** Note *** I am running Windows and SolidWorks on a mac and don't know how to take a screen shot. I attempted to make a video to show how I made the flower but the video does not show the feature tree or my mouse where I was trying to point to things. I hope between the video and these steps you can get an idea of how I made this flower.

1. Step 1:

   Petals
   -I opened up a new sketch and place the picture of the flower in the back ground.

   

2. Step 2:

   -then I traced a profile on one side of the petal with the spline tool.

3. Step 3:

   -I did an offset entities and then closed the ends with short line segments.

4. Step 4:

   -in a new sketch I made a spiral to the shape of the petals.

5. Step 5:

   -pierce the two sketches together and do a sweep.

6. Step 6:

   -I then made a plane that bisected where the petals overlap and drew a profile of an arc. This was used to cut away the petals to give the flower the proper shape.

7. Step 7:

   -Added various fillets to shape and cleanup the petals

8. Step 8:

   Pistol
   -sketch of a circle at base of petal

9. Step 9:

   -sketch of smaller circle where top of pistol should end

10. Step 10:

    -profile sketch between two circles

11. Step 11:

    -loft using the above three sketches.

12. Step 12:

    -The top face of pistol cleaned up with a fillet

13. Step 13:

    Stem
    -Made a circle below the petal and pistol and did a simple extrude boss down for the strait part of the stem

14. Step 14:

    -Made a circle at the base of the petal and stem (that would merge all the bodies)

15. Step 15:

    -created four guide curves from the circle to the top of the extruded boss and made a loft.

16. Step 16:

    -cleaned up steam with fillets

17. Step 17:

    enjoy