Easy Consumer goods modeling in rhino - TX-6 Teenage Engineering (Part1)

In This Tuturial we will see how to modelise the TX-6 from Teenage engineering in Rhino.
All the reference pictures were taken from teenage engineering website.

[@jom1439]

for the tedious process at 30:45, i would recommend clicking the inner trimming curves (where the holes should be) and the outside edge of the surface and using the command "planarsrf" - which creates a single planar surface with all selected curves, leaving the holes open. Then just replace the closed surface with your new one, join I together and done.
Otherwise using rounded rectangles for basically every shape here is possible but not what I would recommend, especially not for machined or molded parts like this. Because you use circular rounded edges the continuity of the edge curve breaks at the point where it starts to curve. Imagine driving a car along that line. You would start turning your wheel in one instance all the way and again just suddenly stop cornering. Instead, you slowly increase the steering wheel's angle and after the apex again slowly start decreasing until it's straight again which results in a smooth cornering.
In Industrial Design that is called a curvature continuous edge or surface. Depending on how smooth the corner is you call it G0, G1, G2, G3, ... - The Number after the G tells you how many mathematical derivations of the formula that describes that line are again in itself continuous. (Finally are real-life application for derivations ;) )
A simple circular-rounded curve is a G1 fillet while a kink (so no fillet or blend at all) would be a G0.
For instance, apple uses a minimum of G4 continuity on all surfaces like it's the standard in automotive design as well. I would assume TE to be similarly meticulous as well, especially with quite simple geometries like on the TX-6

[@Mood_Inc]

Awesome tutorial! Thanks!

[@tonynacho]

This is fantastic! Is the final model / Rhino project available to take a look at?

[@meganesouchet8856]

Thank you for your tutorial, it is easy to follow and I learned a lot for my future modelisations

[@DuterqueStudio]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ln9808]

At about 11:30 you could have used Transform -> Array -> Linear

[@DuterqueStudio]

Yes that's also possible

[@шамильюсупов-б5и]

thank you)

[@razigar]

best