Guest rzito Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Hi All, I'd like to try rendering a glass square tube that will show air bubbles trapped within the glass walls. Tom, This should get your juices flowing. Any ideas would be welcome, my head is already startin' to hurt. Regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlehnhaeuser Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Hi Ralph, I 'll try andd find it however what I did in the past is actually create an assembly od "glass" spheres to represent bubbles. If would well, however the placement and sizing of each bubble took quite a bit of time. Heres a post thtt I guess stunped everyone. http://www.ironcad.com/support/community/i...?showtopic=5215 Ralph. Maybe you can use the splash Bryan created in his fluid program here: http://www.ironcad.com/support/community/i...?showtopic=6112 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronKevin Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Most 3D Graphic/Rendering programs like 3D Studio or Lightwave have an object type called Particles. Particles allow you to quickly and parametrically create hundreds of small objects such as broken glass, bubbles or even smoke. Of course these are things not found in CAD systems but if you have access to one of these graphics modelers you could create the particles and import them into IronCAD. Otherwise, you will have the painstaking task of creating them manually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rzito Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 Thanks Tom & Kevin, I had a sneaking suspicion that it was going to involve producing spheres and placing them within the solid glass. How do you treat the render settings on the spheres? I have followed your links, that circular piece is just what the doctor ordered. I have attached the images of the model I'm working on, I'd only really need to see the bubbles when I zoom right in. Regards Ralph ICRender_mr1.bmp ICRender_mr2.bmp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest EricFoy Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 Hey Tom: That's an actual photo that was taken on shuttle flight STS-47. You can see the earth in the background. I heard it took the crew a few hours and several bottles of Highland Mist to get it just right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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