The Engineer, the Mountain Biker and Cad Lover..

Planes

2011-01-11T21:57:00.000-08:00

Hi all and a happy 2011..! I haven't been posting lately because I am currently "engaged" with personal issues as well as having to prepare myself for a change of job. Anyhow, I haven't been MS Excel-ing lately, but this is a work which I have done in 2010 (sounds pretty long ago, but it isn't..maybe around november 2010?). I call it the devil plane, not so sure why but it looks good in red. Anyhow the above image I have used photoshop to create some of the effects like the rotating propellers. It would like below if I haven't done any photoshopping:-

Just to prove that it is 3D..here's a side view of the plane.

And the plans of the plane basically:-

The plane, if you notice, is not that symmetrical (one wing looks longer than the other). It is a fault difficult to rectify as I have played a lot with the blending options, making it difficult to calculate the exact displacement.
More images and variation of the "devil" plane:-

I call this the stealth version, though it won't be so stealthy if it is propeller type anyways.

One in which I blend one of Windows' sample pictures with my Excel work (plug and paste).

Just a show as well that I do not only draw mechanical things, but also structures as well, I attach an image of an ongoing project below which shows the different views of a building I drew (well, not exactly to scale, but I fully utilize the 1584 length of the shape).

Basically its like a 5 storey apartment with huge windows and balcony per floor. It's 3D meaning you can rotate and view the building from different views. Main thing to get this right? remember the displacement for each floors.

Gundam and I-Durian

2010-11-13T00:44:00.000-08:00

I designed a phone (well mostly looking at the current smartphones in the market) and sort of like had some fun with it and called it the I-Durian. Have a look at it.
Using excel, the phone was drawn.

Sometimes you notice in the brochures of some phones they have orthogonal views of the phone (I think it is called orthogonal if I'm not mistaken). Though it'd looked cool doing so. Oh yeah, this wallpaper here is the sample picture provided by Windows (in sample pictures). Noticed the durian logo at the back of the phone near the camera area? :P

Sort of like the advertisement for the phone. Black background, reflective surfaces..cool chromed writing..and one durian word at the top..!:) and one handsome guy's face licking a tower..a perfect advertisement!:P

A view of the phone, and a picture of me licking the Shanghai tower..!:P

The idea came about when I noticed my colleague is tingling with his I-phone. So, I just gave it a shot using the excel program. I like that picture.

And here's one of my finally finished left-for-months drawing, another gundam actually. This gundam though is not 3D (meaning I can't simply flip it around like the cars i have previously drawn). It is a fixed view of the gundam. I didn't know what to name it, so I just called it the Gundam FXX.

I took sort of like a long time to complete this gundam, probably i sort of lost some interest in it because of the difficulty and the pose i wanted it to do..just couldn't quite figure it out. Suddenly everything just came gushing in and all the ideas just exploded on to the drawing. It then only took me like 2 hours to complete the legs (head alone took me 3 hours).

The background was also created in excel, supposingly portraying space, but it looks more of like a night sky view..

Before I forget..there's also another remake of the f1 oldies car..this time it is in 3D (can be flipped around this time unlike previous version).

I haven't got the time to upload more pictures of it up, maybe in the next post..till then, have a great weekend!

Reworks+Not So New Stuff

2010-11-08T08:26:00.000-08:00

More MS Excel stuff after the short Diwali holidays in M'Sia..and pretty tired after my trip to the middle east.

So over here, I am uploading some of the stuffs I did before the holidays..

Here's the work from my Black Widow project. No more black I guess, thought it would look cooler red and slightly chromed rims with the black 5-spokes. I have added headlights and tail-lights to the model, and added an intake area to it as well as a rear diffuser. The door lines however, are just 2-D, meaning that if I were to rotate the vehicle, it doesn't rotate accordingly (same goes to the shadow and the ground). Also,they just wouldn't sit on the curvey surfaces of the car. Just to show you a more detailed look of it.. Detail of front and back as below.

The blackwidow series has changed a few times, so it has sort of become an evolution series. Just a comparison.

The first would be the one done in 2D, the 2nd is the first one I have done in 3D and the 3rd one is the latest till date as above..now I guess I know why we have so many face lift models when it comes to car designing
Anyhow, another project which I have not uploaded here, and you will see it in a matter of seconds, is my sort of Speed Racer Mach 5 inspiration mix with a buggy type of feel car...Tada..I give you, the yellowbee..

It is not the same design as the blackwidow, but the lights though, are about the same (something with circular lights I am fascinated with). It looks nice in yellow, so I named it Yellowbee..anyways, more detailed look of the car.

Speed racer Mach 5 look alike?

Maybe just a little..:)

Autocad Car..in 3D

2010-10-13T11:26:00.000-07:00

Got a bit gatal today, and decided to use Autocad to draw a car from scratch, similarly to what I usually do with MS Excel. Anyhow, this is still unfinished stuff..so a small preview of the car. Still many missing details though.

Somehow, Autocad without rendering looks pretty awful compared to MS Excel, but one thing however, with CAD I get to play with the shapes more...like tapering the A and C Pillars to give the car a more interesting look from the front compared to Excel..

Anyways, it may take sometime again to complete this..and it is already 2.25am..damn..gotta work tomorrow..

Blackwidow Remake...in 3D

2010-10-06T04:25:00.000-07:00

Nowadays, when you go to the movies...every announcement of their movie title is always complimented with the phrase..."..in 3D!"...yea yea yea...everything in 3D..so I decided to make one of my artworks.."in 3D!" yup yup...my so-called blackwidow car..which i previously did on MS Excel..is now..."in 3D!!"..using MS Excel as well...just to refresh you..

This..is the 2D version of the car I drew few months back..looks quite cool and everything when it is already in 2D mode... Now..in 3D!!!!!

Note that this work is not 100% completed...notice that it still doesn't have an exhaust nor air intake..anyhow, the work still goes on...however, using the Excel program to perform 3D is not easy..it doesn't allow you to tapaer the 2D shapes at a certain angle, leaving my car to look quite squarish especially when viewed from the front or back...and maybe from the top.. using actual 3D softwares permits the use of the tapering of the surface..

This work took me about 1 week to complete..especially when you try to imagine the shapes you would have to go thru and all the rotation and panning to get the positioning right..

More Excel works..

2010-09-29T08:29:00.000-07:00

Well, one may think this is just excel work, but finally today i got a comment from my colleague that for doing this, he thinks i am a 'tensai' ..which means genius..thanks for the compliment..I actually do this out of fun, but i am not so sure if it would be get me somewhere one day..

First up, the gundam picture..I drew this out of scratch and it has no reference to any of the existing gundams (in anime) that are up to date..but maybe a bit from the F90 and F90II (model kits). It all started out with the head..and then out of curiosity and eagerness, I tried drawing the body..then the legs, the arms, etc..and then, it became a bit lame because it was just a robot standing there. So I decided to add in that super long rifle (idea from the F90II) and made the gundam holding it as though its like a soldier or something..The effects of the gundam mostly came from the bevelling effect in excel, as well as the gradient effect to give the shades..there are more effects you can try out...be adventurous..

and then, it came to the tinkering of the 3D models...it all started when I opened up the clip art file, and found the gear clip art is made out of a flat model, then added in with the 3D format and rotation effects..to give it the 3 dimensional look..so be it, I decided to try out on something a bit more complicated, and I didn't know why..I just drew a formula 1 car..well not to the exact spec, but just to make it look cool and probably look like a Ferrari road car..Just to prove that indeed I did draw it out, you can see that I can select the shapes in the picture..took me 2 days to complete this...

That's the final product..it would look better if I actually saved the pics in .bmp instead of .jpg..I can't seem to upload .bmp files here though..and right after this project, I remembered one of my previous drawings of an old F1 remake which I feature in the blog here quite a while ago..nvm, you can refer to the work here to give you an idea..

Previously I had this in side view and top view...and again..the wanting to experiment feeling in me said..go for it..make the car to have the 3D look..and well...similarly to the F1 drawing, I did it...basically I just took the side view and converted them to 3D format and rotated the shapes like crazy in order to get the right angle and perspective...maybe it isn't so perfect if you look properly..
The rims looked different as well because I am unable to rotate the rim into 3D format..it's a bit complicated there..hard to explain..but anyhow...this is the finishing..

TADAAAA!!!!!!notice the rims on the front and the back are similar..many shapes on board...difficult to rotate them...so i just leave them as it is...

A lot of testings and trials required to get these right..but once you get the idea..it should be easy..

Bicycle Frame on Autocad

2010-08-24T09:46:00.000-07:00

A work in progress, using only Autocad and some reference from the net to model out a full suspension bicycle frame, only the front portion, without any accessories...yet....

From a perspective view, it looks kindda cool, but hopefully, I will be able to complete a whole set of bike using whatever data I can get from the web...it'll be cool having a bike you wish for in 3D...at least if you can't have one in real life, you can still have one in your computer..:)

Black Widow Editted

2010-08-20T19:34:00.000-07:00

With the black widow seen in the previous post, and with a help of my colleague, who came up with the design of a new 5-spoke rim, I changed the rim for this ride. Have a look. Rim was drawn using CADPAC, and I edit it using paint (just coloring it) and then fitting it in excel.

The rims have changed from the original black 5 spoke (Done on excel) to a brand new 5 spoke with slot (looks like work emotion rims, but its not). After photoshopping the car with a background, here's how it looks like...well, not that great of an art, but it's been a while since I did photoshopping:)

'Watch' this...!

2010-07-28T18:54:00.000-07:00

First time doing it, but some how hands gotten itchy and tried out modelling a watch using MS Excel..

Its just something I just came up looking at my current watch I am actually wearing

MS Excel-lent

2010-07-26T23:31:00.000-07:00

It has been INDEED quite a while since I have blogged. Well, here I am again, and now I shall re-live as what the title of the blog says...The Engineer, the mountain biker, the runner and the MS Excel-ler!!!!! whahahah..well what do I mean by MS Excel-ler..basically what I do is just using MS Excel, I design cars and basically, anything that comes to my mind..

Most of these works, done usually during my lunch break or after work at some cafe like Delifrance or Old Town, requires difficult effort of aligning the shapes and moving the shapes around forward and backwards (too many processes, I'll just skip)...

One of the drawings will take maybe approximately one day to complete..well, enough talking..take a look..

Proof that I am using MS Excel (2007 version basically)

Pre-modification of the F1 Oldies Re-make

A mountain bike (1st piece) using MS Excel

One of my so-called old F1 Remake

My latest thus far..i call it Black Widow..well, because it is black and it somehow looks like a coffin car at some angle..hmmm...

Anyways, these are just a few of the works...may have to put it through photoshop to get better results (like the lighting effects)..well, that is if I have the time to do it...anyways...toodaloo!!

Door Part 1

2008-10-13T09:56:00.001-07:00

You've seen my job, now see it in 3D using Autocad 2007 and some paintbrush work!:)

This is the door as you have seen in my previous post (remember the one in red primer). This is supposedly the finishing color, and fully assembled. However, this is done in a computer. In reality, some of the doors are yet to be completed. So next time if you board a ship and notice some weird device like this on a door, remember this!!=)

Anyways, here's a closer look at one of the components. It's called a toggle finger. For this type of door (weathertight), it takes four (4) toggle fingers to lock the door leaf up to the frame. Four toggle fingers and two (2) swivel plates make the whole mechanism and door known as the four dog door (why dog I don't know, and the components don't resemble a dog).

There are other components yet that are still to be drawn and modeled. These pictures are only for personal usage, not for submission to clients and such. Well, hopefully these information / pictures will be useful for you guys in the future when you board a ship.

Time to sleep!

My job..

2008-10-13T01:58:00.001-07:00

Well well, brand new start to the site, I decided maybe its time I should write something.

Firstly, let me introduce my not-so-new ride anymore:

19" Da Bomb Tora Bora XC with the transplant of my previous 17" Diamondback components. So far, this new baby has gone thru the harshness of the KLMB Hash in Semenyih the other day, where I almost puked my guts out due to the Sausage Mcmuffin With Egg, Hash Brown and Coffee I had earlier. Never do that again!! Hope to put my ride to the test again at FRIM this weekend. Anyways , took this picture wit my phone while eating cendol n rojak in kota kemuning!

Work..most of you always wonder, "Patrick, what the do you do?Doors? you are an engineer, and you build doors?"Well, to give all of you a better picture, as of 13/10/2008, this is what I do:-

These kind of doors you see on the ship. This is supposedly the finished product, without the finishing coat. Only the red primer. More pictures:

The second last picture is not a door. Anyways, make a guess?what would you call a door that lies flat on the ground??come on..

It's a hatch!:)

That's just for ships and vessels. EV: look at my CAD work!looks simple but plenty eh!

Then there's the other type of door.Most of you might have seen these pictures thru facebook, but here we go again:

These are the blast doors, usually for the you-know-who people!:)

Introduction..

2008-09-14T20:30:00.000-07:00

From now on, this will be the blog in regards to things such as mountain biking, and for stuffs like CAD works (2d, or 3d) and maybe sometimes, some photoshop works. Hope this will be a a great site for everyone to look at.