F1 car design in Catia V5 xxv

Last time I didn't quite finish the airbox. So let's continue.

Next up is this transition from the airbox to the head rest

I'm going to essentially offset the bottom of the Front Airbox Opening

Here I've got a curve that matches the tangency and curvature of the offset

Now, I want to start putting together the face of the airbox opening. I'm going to create a flat sweep at the forward most point of the airbox.

Project the underside and airbox opening

Split

Split again using the car body

We're left with this

Now for the cockpit back, it looks like it's a slightly concave in the middle, whereas it looks straight at the bottom.

I'll use three lines as guides, one slightly set back in the center, bulging slightly outword on the sides

Project the outside lines onto the surfaces of the whole car

Chop the top off these guides

Create profiles in anticipation of a multi-sections surface

Create a couple of multi-section surfaces

If you trim the two, the result will be ambiguous, but it will allow you to fillet the edge. So select the surfaces to keep.

Fillet the edge.

Now we need to connect the two

I'll just copy and translate the airbox underside to be lower

Project it onto the surfaces

Split using the projection

Blend

Alright, now I'm going to split a bit of the headrest, airbox face, and airbox from the whole car. The goal of this is to blend them together

Here we are, after organizing a little bit

Extract edges and project

Join, smooth, offset

Project

Split

Now create a 3d curve to split the sides with. First offset the COCKPIT OPENING OUTSIDE EDGE curve on the zx plane

Then I'll just make a straight verticle line

Put a point on the offset curve and split it

Connect with a 3d curve imposing tangency and curvature. Join and smooth all.

Project onto the surfaces

Split

Split the projections

Blend

Quick mock up