Enter the Ford China Design Center. How are the tall clay models made?

Bitauto Original At 20:00 on January 17, the Ford China Design Center officially opened, and a new generation of Ford was also unveiled. Mondeo, for the actual analysis of the new car, please go to the extended reading at the end of the article. This article mainly takes you into the Ford China Design Center to see what the characteristics of this automobile design center, which is known as the only foreign-funded (auto brand) design room in Shanghai, can achieve full business processes and full-functional business scope.

With the transformation of the entire Ford China and the advancement of the "Ford China 2.0" strategy, the Ford China Design Studio has been officially upgraded to the new Ford China Design Center , the address is selected at the Ford China Dx Hub "Fuchuang Valley", District D1, Internet Treasure Land, No. 221 Huangxing Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai. This is also the only full-featured design center in the inner ring city of Shanghai. It is said that this place was chosen because it is a gathering place for many start-ups, cutting-edge technology companies and game design and development studios. It has a young, energetic and vibrant atmosphere.

The original intention of establishing the design center was to integrate the aesthetics of local consumers through the perspective of local designers based on the century-old genes of the Ford brand. This also means that many of Ford's special models sold in the Chinese market in the future will be led by this design center. Ford China Design Center currently has more than 200 staff members, and more than three-quarters of the creative design team members are young local designers under the age of 35. After all, the Chinese understand Chinese people better.

The new Ford China Design Center has a full range of capabilities from design trend research, interior and exterior styling design, color and material design, digital interactive experience design to digital model and full-size clay model production. Process car design capabilities, and a full-scale clay model workshop and review hall were also added.

Car styling design has always given people a sense of grandeur, but at the same time it is also very mysterious. For most people, they may have seen too many reports about car factory visits, but I am still new to clay model making and very curious. Today I will focus on introducing 3D clay model making here.

Although it is a sludge workshop, it is very clean. The "mud" is not the mud we generally recognize, but industrial sludge. Its main components are made of various A substance with oily characteristics made of industrial paraffin mixed with various greases, zinc stearate and other fillers.

Industrial sludge has a fine texture and contains a variety of ingredients that are fine enough and rich in tough molecules. It is not easy to hurt your fingers when applied, and it can still have good properties after repeated kneading. It is in a densely adhered state and has strong plasticity, making it easy to shape and modify shapes.

At the same time, industrial sludge not only needs to adapt to large blocks and large areas without cracking and cracking for a long time, but also must be able to produce fine shapes.Characteristically, it can withstand continuous modification and repeated kneading without easily causing structural changes in the molecules. Therefore, its stability is also excellent, and it will not cause obvious shape changes when placed for a long time.

Then why must we make a clay model? For the modeling of large-scale industrial products such as automobiles, the sense of volume is a very important factor in modeling evaluation. Wearing VR glasses to view virtual modeling will not work. You must use physical models.

The styling of a new car generally needs to go through several steps such as 2D sketches - 3D parametric modeling - small sludge model - 1:1 sludge model - scanning data. , the clay model is a relatively delicate and time-consuming job. As the saying goes, "sharpening the knife will not waste time chopping wood." A good equipment is very important.

The sludge model workshop has the most advanced high-precision cantilever sludge milling machine imported from Kolb, Germany. It has high power, fast speed and can Greatly improve the efficiency of clay model production.

Sludge models are commonly used The main modeling tools include scrapers, toothed plates (scrapers) and engraving knives. Commonly used tooth plate scrapers mainly include carbon, steel chips, and wood chips.

After the physical model is completed, the designer can combine 8 K-resolution ultra-high-definition LED giant screen and the latest virtual reality review equipment allow for immersive review of the clay model, allowing intuitive design changes to be made on the clay model immediately, and then transmitting the change data back through the 3D scanning device .

When detecting vehicles, traditional detection methods cannot quickly and accurately measure the vehicle’s outline and various parameters, while 3D scanning technology obtains digital information through non-contact scanning The point cloud data can quickly complete the inspection of automobile body assembly accuracy, surface difference, gaps, etc. Through three-dimensional scanning, the deformation of its characteristics and the qualification of parameters can be analyzed and detected.

Edit summary: As early as 2007, Ford established an engineering R&D center in Nanjing, which has become one of Ford Motor's nine global product development centers. In 2017, Ford Motor Nanjing Test Center was officially completed. Since then, Ford has its first vehicle testing and verification base in China. Now that the Ford Motor China Design Center has been established, Ford has the ability to independently develop and design products in China. I believe that with the systematic operation of Ford China's "four major centers", the goal of "more Ford and more China" will be realized faster. Ford may not be the ultimate pursuit of peak performance, but it must be the best to provide "performance" to ordinary consumers. "Feel" brand, we look forward to Ford bringing more products to the domestic market in the future.What a sincere work.