smoother loft?
smoother loft?
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Hey,
I've built a loft of an ellipse by making one quarter of it and mirroring twice (photos attached). The loft isn't smooth and continuos, any idea how to make a perfect ellipse? Do I have to add more profiles?
I've built a loft of an ellipse by making one quarter of it and mirroring twice (photos attached). The loft isn't smooth and continuos, any idea how to make a perfect ellipse? Do I have to add more profiles?






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Dan
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Judging by the shaded model, it also looks as if your guide curves are not tangent to vertical or horizontal--so when you mirror your geometry you get unmatched surfaces as well. Draw construction lines on the ends of your guide curves, set them to be tangent to the guide curves, then assign them to be either vertical or horizontal (whichever makes sense).
There are other tips to use for more complex stuff, but this should straighten out these forms just fine. (Instead of making construction lines to establish proper tangency you can create surfaces for tangency and even continuity--but I don't think you need that quite yet.)
Jeff Mowry
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