Zippo Concept - DRVKE

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Hey y’all,

So I spent some time over the last two weeks watching Keyshot tutorials on Youtube to learn some more advanced texturing skills. Super fun project, but my computer has been pushed to its limits lol.

In school, to practice our marker rendering skills, our professor asked us to sketch a Zippo lighter and then render the duplicated sketch with multiple different textures as a way to practice. I thought I’d use that idea again but this time with CAD.

I enjoyed designing the Zippo lighter in Shapr3D before I even got to the rendering portion of the project in Keyshot. I wanted to follow existing Zippo dimensions, but updated to look a bit more stylish and futuristic. This was the result! :slight_smile:

Zippo - Gold Flakes
Zippo - Gold Flakes3840×2680 2.09 MB

Gold Metallic Flakes on Semi-Gloss Black Metal

Zippo - Recycled Plastic
Zippo - Recycled Plastic3840×2680 2.44 MB

Recycled Plastic

Zippo - Engineered Plastic
Zippo - Engineered Plastic3840×2680 2.05 MB

Engineered Ballistic Plastic

Zippo - Tree Bark
Zippo - Tree Bark3840×2680 2.46 MB

Mossy Tree Bark w/displacement map

Zippo - Forged Steel
Zippo - Forged Steel3840×2680 2.02 MB

Busted Up Forged Steel

Zippo - Shapr3D Technical View
Zippo - Shapr3D Technical View3840×2680 653 KB

Technical Views

Zippo - Shapr3D Detail View
Zippo - Shapr3D Detail View3840×2680 1.25 MB

Closeup of internal components

Zippo - Shapr3D Render View
Zippo - Shapr3D Render View3840×2680 827 KB

The setup for rendering - note the flame substitute (I used this body as a light source)

Zippo - Shapr3D Comparison View
Zippo - Shapr3D Comparison View3840×2680 615 KB

Comparison between standard Zippo geometry and my more curved approach

Thanks for your time - I’m happy to answer any questions!

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Very nice. I would totally miss the wheel though. It has such a distinct feeling.

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Bonus point for the properly modeled flame :heart_eyes:

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It occurred to me that I was messing with forces above my pay-grade haha I imagined the lever having a satisfying click when depressed and the flame stays on without having to hold it down thereafter… but yes, the wheel is classic and maybe I strayed too far lol

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Actually I think you could make the lever to feel somewhat similar if you have to press hard the lever initially, but the necessary force smoothly decreases as you are pushing it down. It would be a very interesting design exercise to come up with a mechanism that could give you that feeling.
On the other hand, it could be also an interesting opportunity to discover if the wheel could be transformed from the current mechanical solution to an induction based electric part :slight_smile:

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