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Reverse Engineering Shape with Surface Modeling
rubenskaya_poop
Member Posts: 10 β
I have this shape that I want to reverse engineer , im not very great at surface modeling and its giving me headaches I tried doing a loft extrude and thinking I would cut the excess material on top with some kind of surfaces but I can find a way to do it properly. Please guide me for the best way to reverse engineer this shape.π
Here is the link : model
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jelte_steur_info
Member Posts: 668 PRO
perhaps a single extrude with some draft may work.
It depends on how precise you need it to be. Best thing is to create a surface bigger than the loft and trim (split part) it in one go.
the surface could be a constrained surface, or is it perhaps close enough if you revolve a surface?1
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Have you tried the "constrained surface"?
Also check Evan's great videos on the subject, like this one for example:
perhaps a single extrude with some draft may work.
It depends on how precise you need it to be. Best thing is to create a surface bigger than the loft and trim (split part) it in one go.
the surface could be a constrained surface, or is it perhaps close enough if you revolve a surface?
Thank you! This got on on the right path, I will try Evans custom features that might help also.
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I tried the the split comand on the loft using a surface a cut surface but got and error and couldnt continue.
Im not sure how a revolve would help...
I have managed to get one step closer using constrained surface.
Thank you guys