Easy Car Original January 17, 20:00, Ford China Design Center officially opened, and at the same time unveiled a new generation of Ford Mondeo, about the new car real shooting analysis, please move to the end of the article to read. This article is mainly to take you into the Ford China Design Center to see what the characteristics of this automotive design center that is known as the only foreign-funded (automobile brand) design studio in Shanghai that can achieve full business process and full functional business scope are.
With the transformation of the entire Ford China and the promotion of the "Ford China 2.0" strategy, the Ford China Design Office was officially upgraded to become the new Ford China Design Center, located in the Ford China Dx Hub "Fuchuang Valley" in the D1 Area of The Interconnected Treasure Land, No. 221 Huangxing Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai, which is also the only full-featured design center in the inner ring city center of Shanghai. It is said to be a hub for startups, cutting-edge technology companies and game design and development studios, with a youthful, vibrant and vibrant atmosphere.
The design center was built with a total investment of 70 million yuan, and the original intention of its establishment was to integrate the aesthetics of local consumers through the perspective of local designers on the basis of the Century-old gene of the Ford brand. This also means that in the future, many of Ford's special models sold in the Chinese market will be dominated by the design center. At present, ford China design center has more than 200 staff, more than three-quarters of the creative design team members are young local designers under the age of 35, after all, Chinese know more about Chinese.
The new Ford China Design Center has full-process vehicle design capabilities from design trend research, interior and exterior modeling design, color material design, digital interaction experience design to digital model and full-size clay model production, and has also added a full-size clay model workshop and review hall.
Car styling design has always given people a tall feeling, but at the same time it is also very mysterious, for most people, may see more car factory visit reports, but the sludge model production is still very strange and curious, today I will focus on introducing the 3D sludge model production here.
Although it is a sludge workshop, it is very clean, and the "mud" is not the mud we generally recognize, but the industrial sludge, and its main component is a substance with oily characteristics mixed with various industrial paraffin waxes and a variety of oils, zinc stearate and other fillers.
Industrial sludge texture is delicate, contains a variety of enough delicate and rich in tough molecules of the ingredients, it is not easy to hurt the fingers when smeared, and it can still have a good state of mass and tight adhesion after repeated kneading, with strong plasticity, easy to shape and modify.
At the same time, industrial sludge not only needs to adapt to large blocks, large areas of accumulation for a long time will not open the seam and break, but also must be able to withstand continuous modification and repeated kneading when making subtle molding features without easy structural changes in molecules. Therefore, its stability is also excellent, and it will not produce obvious shape changes after a long time.
So why do you have to make a sludge model? For the modeling of large industrial products such as automobiles, the sense of volume is a very important factor in the evaluation of modeling, and what wears VR glasses to see virtual modeling does not work, it must be a physical model.
The new car modeling generally has to go through two-dimensional sketches - three-dimensional parameter modeling - small clay model - 1:1 sludge model - scanning data and other steps, the sludge model is a more delicate and time-consuming work, as the saying goes, "sharpen the knife without mistakenly cutting wood", a good equipment is very important.
The sludge model workshop has the most advanced high-precision cantilever sludge milling machine, imported from Germany Kolb, with high power and fast speed, which can greatly improve the efficiency of sludge model production.
The main modeling tools commonly used in clay models are scrapers, tooth plates (scrapers) and engraving knives. Commonly used tooth plate scrapers, there are three main types of carbon and steel chips and wood chips.
After the physical model is made, the designer can immerse the sludge model in the professional review hall, combined with the 8K resolution ultra-high-definition LED giant screen and the latest virtual reality review equipment, and can make intuitive design changes on the sludge model at the first time, and then transmit the change data back through the 3D scanning device.
When inspecting vehicles, the traditional detection method cannot quickly and accurately measure the outer contours of the vehicle and various parameters, and the three-dimensional scanning technology obtains digitized point cloud data through non-contact scanning, which can quickly complete the detection of automobile body assembly accuracy, surface difference, clearance and so on. Through 3D scanning, it is possible to analyze and detect the deformation of its characteristics and the qualification of its parameters.
Editor's Summary: As early as 2007, Ford established an engineering research and development center in Nanjing, and became one of the nine major product development centers of Ford Motor in the world. In 2017, the Ford Motor Nanjing Test Center was officially completed, and Since then, Ford has had its first vehicle testing and verification base in China. Now the completion of the Ford China Design Center has given Ford the ability to independently develop and design products in China. It is believed that with the systematic operation of Ford China's "four major centers", the goal of "more Ford more China" will be achieved faster, Ford may not be the ultimate pursuit of performance peak of the brand, but must be the most effort to provide ordinary consumers with "performance feelings" of the brand, look forward to the future Ford for the domestic market to bring more sincere works.