The
Design of the Apple Pro Speaker by Harmon
Kardon is as simple as ingenious. Because
of that this tutorial should be especially
useful for beginners.
I
am not claiming that my speaker is correct
in its dimensions, I created it strictly
following the looks of it.
Part 01: Let us begin with the speaker's
protection shell.
Step
1: We have to
creat a SPHERE.
(Objects-->Baseobjects-->Sphere).
Would
be best to choose a high number of segments
(Doubleclick the symbol behind the Sphereobject
in the object manager), say 100, so
the sphere is nice and round.
Then
we COPY the SPHERE and SCALE it a bit,
to achieve the neccessary thickness
of the shell, as can be seen on the
left. On the image the smaller sphere
is displayed in orange.
We
place both SPHERES in a BOOLEAN OBJECT
(Objects-->Modelling-->Boolean).
The smaller sphere has to be placed
first, or, when opening the bolean object
the smaller sphere has to be below the
bigger one. Because the standard boelan
function is "A minus B", the
smaller sphere will be cut out of the
larger ball. This can't be seen yet.
Step
2: We create
a CUBE (here in orange) and place it
like depicted on the image. Here the
sideview (left)...
...and
here the top view.
Step
3: We create
another boolean object and place the box
first, then the sphere-boolean second,
into the new boolean. The cube will cut
a piece off the sphere.
Step
4: We create
three further spheres and position them
like on the image. Then we create a null
object and put the spheres into it. Afterwards
we create another boolean object, put
the null object in first and the boolean
object that contains the spheres and cube
from earlier.
The
result can be seen here.
Step
5: Now we create
a tube (Objects-->Baseobjects-->Tube).
The settings should be identical to the
thickness and diameter of the sphere-booelan.
It
should be looking somewhat like on the
image to the left.
Here
you can see the first part of our speaker
in Gouroud-Shading.
