Many designers have high professional quality, but our product has its own particularity. Performance and aesthetic need perfect combination, so the RVE team invited CAFA (China Central Academy Of Fine Arts) master Nemo Cai as the design of the task. The most important reason for this was that Nemo Cai had been flying fixed-wing and helicopters since he was very young, so he knew a lot about flying machines.

Let's share the birth of this new case with you!

The requirements for performance had been communicated to the designer long before, such as increasing the cross-section to reduce the dive speed, increasing the strength of the FRP structure through the combination of the line and surface of the fuselage, etc., so he had considered many performance requirements from the beginning of the design.

With the design idea, hand-painted design draft begins to be covered with sheets of the table.

Through constant modification and screening, Nemo finally selected three different design ideas of the sketch style, and elaborated the design concept and characteristics:

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The first design is derived from Luigi Colani's idea of "my world is round", which is mainly composed of perfect fluid curves. A few separation edges are made at the top of the tail to emphasize the sense of force.

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The second design is attached to the esthetics classification, which makes use of the streamline cutting to make a sharp waist line and section, and the whole highlights the modern sense of sharp angles. The function of the shape preserving inlet is similar to the "wide body sleeve" to increase the cross section, and also makes the tangent line to do a dense-closure at the bottom.

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The third design is from the thinking of the Italian vehicle design, using the exaggerated form of fluid mechanics to create a sense of liquid flow, the overall feeling is inclined to streamline industrial design, is the expression of the golden age of industrial design to emphasize the sense of the future.

How's that？Does each have its own unique personality? Design a feeling when most designers will think of first, this design is the most representative of the black shark shell. In the end, the RVE team chose design three, the most futuristic and visually stunning fluid streamline design. This multi-curved design can greatly increase the structural strength of the FRP, with high support and torsional resistance, so that the housing can be made thinner and lighter. According to the characteristics of this design, her name was also born --

Future

The sketch was slightly modified to take on a richer three-dimensional form.

After the initial design was completed, the work got heavier. You need to refine the curves, radians, combinations, and so on for each position. There are too many revised materials. I chose two representative hand-drawn pictures to show.

The body is to be installed on the body of the Merak, so all the dimensions should be calculated according to the frame structure, and finally the height, width and length of the housing can be determined.

The rack generates a three-dimensional entity.

Scale it down and 3D print it.

The next step is to make a clay model. The frame model is placed directly inside the sludge so that interference problems can be easily detected.

The basic curves and contours have been revealed.

After having this solid sample, 3d scanning is needed. After the scanning, a 3d model was established according to the data obtained. Here is the prototype after the scan and reconstruction. The basic lines and curves have been shown, but they are still not smooth enough and need to be adjusted.

The following solid diagram is finalized after countless revisions. The workload during this period may be unimaginable to ordinary people. Each revision of 3d diagram is often several hours or dozens of hours of workload! Thanks to designer Nemo for his hard work!

After the completion of the body model also need to cooperate with the body to do an installation simulation, you can directly check the accuracy of each position.

Now the designer's work has come to an end, and the rest will be devoted to the production of samples. A month later, the first solid case came out of the mold. Complete primary color of FRP, mainly used for fitting and hole location determination. There is no color or line, so it looks strange.

Put the rack into the body, very smooth, without any interference! Because the initial design increased the cross-sectional area of the fuselage, so the internal space is abundant.

Then you can fly! But the body is colorless, the identification will be very low, so temporary stickers to beautify.

The flight test went really well! At the beginning of the design of a lot of improve the performance of the idea has been one by one, now the only problem is to consider how to reduce the weight of the housing! Fortunately, through unremitting efforts, the mass production of the weight of the case reduced a lot, it is said to be able to control around 550g.

With an elegant figure, the next task is to give her a beautiful appearance! The design of fuselage line is very important, the combination of color collocation and figure can bring a completely different feeling to the vision.

The following is the design inspiration provided by li jin, the designer of the central academy of fine arts. The final painting draws on many of his design elements.

There were still many versions of the plan, and the following drafts were finalized.

After the appearance design is completed, it is necessary to make a color drawing sample. In order to ensure the symmetry and linearity of the line of the mass production housing, the laser marking method was used to make the sample.

This can ensure the symmetry and linearity of the line as much as possible.

After sticking the cover tape according to the line, I began to paint. Sample paint finished!

After 11 months, RVE's new case finally broke the cocoon! Do you have a feeling of heartbeat? According to reliable sources, it will be officially released in March, in blue orange and red orange. Here I have Shared with you the whole process of Future from conception to production. We can also have a deeper understanding of a brand's pursuit and dedication to products. 

Want to know her other hidden characteristics? Only you close to her to feel it!