How to make a wavy face like the one attached? Would someone be kind enough to explain this one?

daniel_fajkis

STEG

Ouch! You're not looking to do something easy!

Looks like you'll have to learn how to work with surfaces. The basics of working with surfaces are easy to learn but to achieve something like the image you show, it will take time for you to learn how to.

To get you started, here is what I would do:



1) Start with what is below the curve pointed with the blue arrow, let's call this curve the main curve.
2) Create the main curve.
3) Create the 2 surfaces indicated with the orange arrows (the surface on the right is hidden on your image). These 2 surfaces are touching the ends of the main curve. Let's call them the bottom and the side surfaces.
4) Create the 2 blues curves in the "middle" since they look like planar. These curves are touching the bottom and side surfaces.
5) Create the surface(s) between the main curve and the bottom and side surfaces. You might need more than one step to create them depending on the parameters you'll use (parameters like tangency, curvature, etc).

Hope this help you getting started.

nick_papageorge073

It's too much work to do what you want, seriously. Pick a simpler shape.

daniel_fajkis

just had a brainfart, but i appreciate the pointers, will definitely look more into what you said 

GWS50

Here's 2 quick versions, not very parametric I'm afraid. One uses 'Freeform Splines' by Evan Reece and the other is an Onshape 'Sculpt Face' by Maximilian Schommer, Onshape Inc.

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/7b355b6a9d2efbc0e82cf2e6/w/5ccc25344487158b2a29bc92/e/4cd1a697006359028f66d605


 

martin_kopplow

This one is not overly complex, but requires a holistic approach, for everything is connected to everything, even with the invisible, where fiction becomes a part of reality. So, the magic ingredient here is massive overbuilding of the profiles and guides the surface is then lofted from:

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/9a785f883baa23580301a316/w/981d948cfc95c5799f73f00d/e/07c32b9c8436febdc30585e4?renderMode=0&tangentEdgeStyle=1&uiState=66001e8a1b547e0846f95590

S1mon

@martin_kopplow
I saw this problem and it's been rattling around in my head. I was imagining an approach very much like this, so now I don't have to do it too.

daniel_fajkis

you guys are the best, much appreciated