A car’s exterior design creates most of the initial impact of the car model in the market. How it looks like from the outside makes clients interested on how it would look like on the inside. This is the reason exterior design professionals are extremely important in the car design industry. They are the minds behind the visible aspect of car development. This is a group of professionals who have well-built background in industrial design and vast knowledge in the car model trend.
In designing the exterior phase of the car, the designers engage in massive research of the effects of the surfaces in the car’s functionalities and visual impact. The surfaces of the car usually affect its total aerodynamic propulsion as well as the engine’s performance (fuel consumption per unit of time).
Many successful car manufacturing companies such as Dodge have introduced high quality car models over the years. These companies invest on long-term feasibility studies to accumulate substantial basis for their designs. A huge portion of the funding is spent on exterior design as it requires subsidiary procedures such as clay modeling and body in white.
Clay modeling is the process of molding the exterior surfaces of the car using industrial plasticine. Most industrial plasticine or clay is a wax-based material made of synthetic materials with a mixture of sulfur. However, some car manufacturing companies, like Dodge Edmonton companies, use sulfur-free plasticine because of the effect of sulfur in the mass of the mold.
This clay model is the impression of the actual car. The accurate surfaces of the mold are created by a specially designed machine that is different from the actual machine used during the body in white process. Most car manufacturers, such as Dodge Edmonton manufacturers, use 3 and 5 axis milling machine to carve a massive amount of clay through a wooden or metallic prefabricated form surface called body in white.