The next morning, Zhou Jingming, under the leadership of Brandt, officially visited the internal laboratory of Audi, which was also the first time Zhou Jingming visited Audi seriously.

The four interlocking circles of Audi's iconic logo represent the four companies before the merger: Audi, Little Wonder, Hozzy and Rover, each ring representing a company.

After a tour of Audi's interior, Zhou Jingming soon saw the Audi engineer's plan for the replacement of the Audi 80.

Zhou Jingming just glanced at it, and a thought popped up in his mind: it was very rough.

I don't know if it's because of the tight time, or because of the lack of experience in the design of the rounded body, from the overall drawings, Audi's engineers just simply and rudely made local changes to the parts of the body that need to be strengthened, and some of the arc transitions appear very abrupt, looking particularly stiff and without the slightest sense of beauty.

Of course, it's not that such a design can't be, in general, according to this design, there is already a shadow of the fourth-generation Audi 80, if it goes through a certain amount of processing in the later stage, it is still a classic good car, but measured by the standards of the fifth-generation and sixth-generation Audi A4, it will seem to be a fly in the ointment.

"Mr. Brandt, overall, the current design plan is still very good, but there are some details that need to be improved, and if I can, I can help with some modifications to this car in the next few days. After carefully reading all the design drawings, Zhou Jingming said with a smile.

However, Zhou Jingming was not stupid enough to completely veto the other party's work results, so even if it is modified and improved, he will try his best to ensure that the original design effect is maintained, otherwise it will not be perfect, but a reversal.

"Then trouble Mr. Zhou. Brandt hurriedly said, "During this time, you can come in the Audi design lab at any time, and the design computer can also be used casually." ”

Speaking of this, Brandt suddenly looked at Zhou Jingming, "I don't know if Mr. Zhou will use CAD to design drawings, if not, I can arrange someone to train you, with Mr. Zhou's ingenuity, you will be able to master it soon." ”

At present, all mainstream car manufacturers in Europe and the United States have basically realized CAD design, but most of them still retain the habit of manual drawing, which makes the design cycle of a car much longer than that of European and American car manufacturers.

Zhou Jingming smiled and waved his hand, "I still know something about CAD, if there is any problem, I will come to Mr. Brant for help." ”

Zhou Jingming is also reborn no matter what he says, CAD drawing is just the most basic skill in car design, if you don't even master this, then don't think about what siege lions do.

Since he agreed to help Audi improve the body design of the 80 car, in the next few days, Zhou Jingming will simply be stationed in Audi, and it will soon enter September, and Zhou Jingming still has other things to arrange, so he can't stay in Germany for a long time.

Although Audi has achieved computer-aided design, but the current computer, or DOS system, the operation interface is very unfriendly, coupled with the current stage of CAD software is not powerful, the experience of human-computer interaction is particularly poor, Zhou Jingming also took a day, gradually familiar with the entire operation process.

In order to retain the original design style to the greatest extent, Zhou Jingming can be said to have taken great pains, of course, he did not refer to the fourth generation Audi 80 before the rebirth, but to the fifth and sixth generation Audi 80 as the design standard, in order to improve, and Audi 80 to the fifth generation, it was officially renamed Audi A4.

The fifth-generation Audi A4 is characterized by a longer wheelbase, the front of the body design has become flatter and shorter, emphasizing a sense of dynamics, of course, domestic consumers are most impressed by the Audi A4, or the sixth generation of Audi A4, because this is the first Audi A4 introduced in China, this Audi A4, as a whole, is a bit like a reduced version of the Audi A6, when the introduction of the country, it can be said that it caused a lot of sensation.

What Zhou Jingming has to do is to fully integrate the design style of the fifth generation and the sixth generation of Audi A4, transfer these to the current design scheme, and form a harmonious and unified whole, which is actually a very huge project, but fortunately, the design of each generation of Audi A4 has a consistent line, plus Zhou Jingming also knows a lot about the Audi car series, and it only took two days for Zhou Jingming to have a corresponding modification plan.

After having a specific plan, the next thing left is only the work of drawing, because it only involves the body design, and the CAD at this stage is very unfriendly to the generative surface design, and there are many design concepts that Zhou Jingming wants to express cannot be reflected, so Zhou Jingming can only take a compromise method and modify some places while drawing.

In this way, a week passed quickly, and Zhou Jingming finally completed all the modification and improvement work, and Brant also took the chief designer of the Audi A4 to carry out the "acceptance".

The designer can be said to know the Audi 80 well, in addition to participating in the design of the second generation of Audi 80, the third generation of Audi 80 is fully responsible for him, originally he also has some of his own ideas about the design of the fourth generation Audi 80, but after reading Zhou Jingming's design modification some time ago, suddenly there is a feeling of enlightenment.

Although on the whole, the revised design still retains the original design style, but in the local details, Zhou Jingming has made great changes, especially the length of the front face and the rear part of the car and the arc transition, after Zhou Jingming's changes, it looks more natural and integrated!

"Did you mean that the overall length of the car has increased?" the designer asked, staring at the printed drawings.

"Hmm. Zhou Jingming nodded with a smile, "Also, I have expanded the capacity of the trunk, which is more practical as a family car." ”

"What about the front grille?" The designer's eyes suddenly stayed on the front grille, and his eyes suddenly lit up!

Because Zhou Jingming's modified grille is really spiritual!

Zhou Jingming smiled, "I think the original grille is not atmospheric enough, so I expanded the grille to form the current big mouth shape." ”

Most people see Audi cars, the shape of the grille, all of them are unified big mouth shapes, which has also become a typical symbol of Audi cars, just like the kidney grille of BMW cars.

But before the sixth-generation Audi A4, Audi's grille was not what we see now, but a very small shape similar to a pursed mouth, rather than a shape with a big mouth as we are familiar with, so after thinking about it, Zhou Jingming took such a shape design and used it.

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