Reverse Engineered Bottle
The pill bottle is complete! I created a model of the Estriadol bottle I use for my estrogen supplement. I chose it initially because of the simple basic shape that encapsulates many small details, and just as I expected, the construction was a lot of fun, with many small details that was time consuming but fun to figure out.
One of the major issues to figure out was making all the hollow components, as most of the components in the pill bottle are actually defined by their negative space, so I actually used Boolean Split to 'carve' the negative space out of larger shapes. There's also a lot of forms to mold around cylinders, so I used the Flow tool a lot.
One part I'm particularly proud of is the sticker - the surface tool has weird interactions when overlaid on top of a solid, making it so the text clips through the surface and looks patchy. To fix that I extruded the text by the tiniest amount, so it sits above the paper and thus shows up cleanly. I then flowed the whole sticker around the bottle.
Above you can see an exploded view of the bottle - the cap at the top, the child-safe lock mechanism beneath it, and the bottle at the bottom. There are further details not quite visible, such as tabs inside the cap, and irregular shapes on the bottom of the bottle.
One of the major issues to figure out was making all the hollow components, as most of the components in the pill bottle are actually defined by their negative space, so I actually used Boolean Split to 'carve' the negative space out of larger shapes. There's also a lot of forms to mold around cylinders, so I used the Flow tool a lot.
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| Oh no I spilled my pills! |
Above you can see an exploded view of the bottle - the cap at the top, the child-safe lock mechanism beneath it, and the bottle at the bottom. There are further details not quite visible, such as tabs inside the cap, and irregular shapes on the bottom of the bottle.
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