3 Sided Surfaces
3 Sided Surfaces
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I am looking for suggestions on how to create 3 sided surfaces. What commands I could try? Any special technique or procedure I should look into? Thank you in advance.
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RE: 3 Sided Surfaces
RE: 3 Sided Surfaces
You could sew 3 non-flat surfaces together or trim a block to such surfaces. There are many ways to do it, but the question is too vague to help much.
RE: 3 Sided Surfaces
Or you could create a Through Curve Mesh, with the first Primary String being a point.
I hope that this helps!
Chris Cooper
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RE: 3 Sided Surfaces
Tim Flater
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Enkei America, Inc.
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RE: 3 Sided Surfaces
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I do not mean a non-manifold part. I am trying to create a surface and then thicken it.
Ewh:
I will try to explain better bellow.
Vikingbro:
I tried a Studio Surface 1x2 and a Through Curve Mesh (with the first Primary String being a point). Since in both cases the isoparemetric lines in the v direction flow into a single point; there is a kink in the surface at this point, which prevents me from thickening the surface.
Nkwheelguy:
You are right, I tried the N-Sided surface, but the results were not good, the surface is not smooth and it can not be thicken.
Cowski:
Thank you for the information.
Everybody:
I will try to explain better. I am trying to create a close ended surface, which I am going to thicken. What I mean by close ended, is that my guides and sections (or primary and cross) strings are tangent at four points. If I create a single surface, the quality of the surface at these tangent points is poor because the u-v lines are flowing into a single point (singularity) and the resulting surface can not be thicken. If I divide the surface in patches, I end up with patches that do not have 4 sides; these patches have the same problem I just described. Is that clear as mud or what? Thank you all for your suggestions. Let me know is there are any other suggestions.
RE: 3 Sided Surfaces
Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com