What are the differences between water cup creativity and practical production

I recently encountered a project. Due to time constraints and relatively clear customer requirements, I tried to draw a sketch myself based on my own creative foundation. Fortunately, the sketch was favored by the customer, who required structural design based on the sketch, and finally completed it. product development. Although there are sketches, there is still a long way to go before the product is finally developed smoothly.

Once you have the sketch, you need to ask a professional engineer to make a 3D file based on the sketch. When the 3D file comes out, you can see what is unreasonable in the sketch design and need to correct it, and then make the product look reasonable. Completing this step will be a profound experience. Because I have been working in the water cup industry for a long time, I think I have rich experience in various production processes and the degree of process implementation. Therefore, when drawing sketches, I try my best to avoid the pitfalls that cannot be realized in production and try to make the design plan as practical as possible. Make it simple and don’t use too many production techniques. However, we still encounter conflicts between creativity and practice. It is inconvenient to disclose the specific details because we signed a design confidentiality agreement with the customer, so we can only talk about the reasons. The creative shape became a design problem for the project.

Take stainless steel water cups as an example. Except for detailed processes such as polishing and trimming, the large production processes are currently the same in various factories, such as laser welding, water swelling, stretching, water swelling, etc. Through these processes, the main structure and shape of the water cup are completed, and the creativity is mainly modeling creativity and functional creativity. Functional creativity can be achieved through structural adjustment, but modeling creativity is the most likely to cause a disconnect between imagination and reality. Over the years, the editor has received many projects from around the world that come to discuss cooperation with their own creative styling projects. If production cannot be realized due to product creativity, functional creativity accounts for about 30%, and styling creativity accounts for 70%.

The main reason is still lack of understanding of the production process, especially the unfamiliarity with the production characteristics and production limits of each process. For example, some customers will continue to thicken the thickness of the cup lid in order to make the cup lid more stylish, but the cup lid It is often made of plastic material PP. The thicker the PP material is, the more likely it is to shrink during production (about the shrinkage phenomenon, there is a detailed explanation after the previous article, please read the previous article.), so that after the final product is released, There will be a big gap between the effect of the rendering provided by the customer; another example is that the customer does not know how to vacuum the water cup, so he will vacuum the place where he thinks is suitable based on the water cup plan he designed. This situation may easily cause the vacuuming. If the vacuum is not complete, the vacuuming process will not be possible at all.

Designing various three-dimensional effects on the surface of the water cup, and hoping that the surface of the stainless steel water cup can be achieved by stamping, is a common problem. For water cups realized by welding process, stamping process is relatively more common, but for water cups that can only be realized by stretching , the stamping process is difficult to achieve on the cup now.

Let’s talk about the color design of the cup body. Many customers are very interested in the gradient effect of the cup body design and hope to achieve it directly through spray painting. Currently, spray painting can achieve a relatively simple and relatively rough gradient effect. If you achieve that kind of multi-color gradient, it will be too natural. There is no way to be delicate.