Jon Broadfoot: Week 4 Detergent Bottle

Jon Broadfoot Winter2014 elds205 Detergent Bottle

          While designing my detergent bottle I did a few different things than were showed in the tutorial. For one I decided to not have the cut out in the middle of my bottle run through the handle part. I thought that in real life that would feel awkward to hold onto so I made mine a little bit different. I also made my top different than that showed in the tutorial. They had a top that was just flat and cut off but I chose to cut a curve from the top and blend it with the surface of my threaded top so there would be a nice transition from the actual bottle to the threaded top.

   

          In creating this bottle I used a lot of the sweep 2 command. I stared with three simple curves that I the preformed the sweep 2 command to make the overall shape of the bottle. Then cut out various sections of the bottles and drew little curves in them and then again preformed the sweep 2 command and that how I got the inward curve part of my bottle. The trimmed out a spot for the handle. I filleted all of the edges to make them nice and smooth. Then created my threaded cap using that tutorial that is online. Then took the threaded cap and cut the bottom off so that I could blend the two surfaces together.  

          As far as the material part of this design went I wanted to go with some sort of color combo that would be pleasing to the eye. Also a cool color combo that would catch your eye in the store next to all of the other ones and make you say "Woah, cool I want that bottle". I used plastic materials for this bottle because that is what all of the other bottle are made out of these days because they can be vacuum formed very easily and mass produced quickly.