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Sweeping between two different face shapes
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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.
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.
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Theophilus
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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
A people governed by fear cannot value freedom.
(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
A people governed by fear cannot value freedom.
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