500ml plastic bottle design

3D Design Surface Modeling
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Hi all

I am currently working on the design of a 500ml plastic (PET) bottle and I have a few questions.

1- How to draw the hollow surface on the body of the bottle dedicated to the location of the label? (creation of an offset surface and then removal of material until it knowing that I have to put it on both sides of the bottle). If not, is there another idea?

2- To draw the thread of the cap, it is better to grab it from the Solidworks library or draw it yourself?

Thank you very much.
Ibrahim

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Hello

1 - see Winding - 2022 - SOLIDWORKS Help

2 - The advantage of the nets provided by SW is that they are standard nets for bottle necks. (SP4xxx bottle).

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Hello

On this kind of thing, the easiest thing with SW is often to:

  1. do everything with a full volume (which makes it easy to use the embossing/deembossing winding function as said by @Silver_Surfer )
  2. make a shell function at the end by removing the hole at the neck

The final geometry is very close to reality if the blown/rotomolded thickness is constant.

From memory there were SW tutorials existing on this kind of bottle (NB: English is good if you want to find it on the internet). Maybe even in SW's help files.

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