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Sweeping between two different face shapes

Sweeping between two different face shapes

RE: Sweeping between two different face shapes

The image requires a login. That's more effort than you get from me for free.

The generic solution would be to loft between the two profiles.

If you're going from an ellipse to a circle, you can sweep an ellipse with guide curves to match the path of the ellipse from start to finish.

RE: Sweeping between two different face shapes

(OP)
Thanks - got it with a loft after I provided a guide line/curve

RE: Sweeping between two different face shapes

Keep in mind a circle is simply an ellipse. So you can still do this as an ellipse where the circular profile happens to have the same dimensions in X and Y axes, and the X and Y axes are controlled by one guide curve each. Similarly, you can sweep with two half-ellipses to have a final shape that differs from front to back--or in quarter-ellipses, etc.

(I used to have to do this sort of thing frequently to make good handles/hand-grips for products over ten years ago before surfacing tools became more robust.)

Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
A people governed by fear cannot value freedom.

RE: Sweeping between two different face shapes

(OP)
Thanks for the tip!

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