Sleepless Night Time Doodling

Dave R

Various models based on dimensioned drawings from 100 years and more ago.

tuna1957

Brilliant work as always ! Your reference library of cool old mechanical bits must be epic in size .

Dave R

Thank you sir. Fortunately most of my references are scans done by someone else and stored out on the web. I don't have to have a big stack of musty old books that way.

Rich O Brien

Yummy! New house noises keeping you up?

I wanna see wireframe of here. You got a really nice transition. Are they separate pieces?

Dave R

Thank Rich.

We haven't even started moving yet and that house is keeping me awake at night.
Part of the mesh. It's really dense.

Here you go. I did leave the yoke and the shaft as separate components because I was thinking I might want to use that yoke somewhere else and it would save me cleaning it up if I do. The transition is trimmed right up to the surface of the yoke, though. It could all be combined.

Bryan K

Very nice. Power transfer shaft?

Dave R

Thank you. I guess it could be used anywhere you need a U-joint.

HornOxx

@tuna1957 said:

Brilliant work as always ! Your reference library of cool old mechanical bits must be epic in size .
Ja! exactly what comes to my mind as well. I love Dave's mechanical "sleepless doodles" too, looking at them mostly without the slightest idea what they are for or what I am seeing
But what I have learned from Dave's "sleeplessness " is to use more consistently the options of sketchy styles. I now do this regularly in communication graphics in the early stages of a project to avoid pointless and nurdish detail-blabla. In addition, these types of graphics actually evoke mainly very positive reactions - as seen in your beautiful work here Dave!

Dave R

Thank you!

@hornoxx said:

But what I have learned from Dave's "sleeplessness " is to use more consistently the options of sketchy styles. I now do this regularly in communication graphics in the early stages of a project to avoid pointless and nurdish detail-blabla.

I do that, too. Often when I am designing a piece of furniture, I find it useful to include details that I don't want to show the client, at least in the early stages of the design. Sketchy styles (even the native Straight styles) can be used to do that.