It’s Valentine’s Day, so you know that’s a time for blah blah blah - let’s get on with some 3D Printing.

I’m quite fond of SolidWorks as my CAD modelling program, but I can’t say I feel the same about its surface modelling features. Don’t get me wrong, I think they’re perfectly fine, but when it comes down to organic modelling, I like to use Rhino3D.

That being said, I do enjoy a challenge, so I wanted to try and experiment with designing a rose in SolidWorks: the task being the creation of a model with minimal effort and maximum aesthetic appeal. Please note that this isn’t a tutorial in any way - just a quick breakdown on how I produced the final model.

The process ultimately involved creating the cross-sections for each layer of petals (on the Front Plane), and then using the ‘Sweep’ function to create a solid shape. Creating a central axis, each petal was rotated around the point of origin, and being a sucker for geometric symmetry, I ended up with a beautiful design that cycled petals in factors of 3.

The leaves and stem were created in a similar process, and the final model was printed in ‘Strong and Flexible’ Plastic from Shapeways.

Hello Everyone!

Just a quick introductory post for the Life of AK website. I’m Abd-Ur-Rahman Khan but everyone calls me ‘A.K’ - it’s nice to meet you.

I trained as a Product Designer, but I work in various other fields of design, and as of the time of writing, I lend my services to various individuals and companies via the fabulous world of freelancing.

There is currently one main project which is MODUS (a modular mobile device) which is in active development, but is quite expensive and time consuming to work on so I can’t say for sure how often I’ll be providing updates on it. Regardless, I’ll make posts to keep everything updated as the project progresses.

That’s it for now - I just wanted to keep everything brief. Thank you for stopping by!