Im a jr in High-school doing a public project, but i don't know how to make smooth complex surfaces.

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  alnis Member, Developers Posts: 449 EDU

  November 2020

  It sounds like the advanced part and surfacing design tutorial series might be relevant (particularly the surfacing sections):
  https://learn.onshape.com/learn/learning-path/advanced-part-and-surfacing-design
  
  Admittedly, I do still need to finish the pathway, but the parts I have done so far have been very helpful.

  Student at University of Washington | Get in touch: contact@alnis.dev | My personal site: https://alnis.dev

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  tim_hess427 Member Posts: 648 ✭✭✭✭

  November 2020

  I'll second the comments from @alnis_smidchens: studying up on surfacing is the way to go. I've found that working with surfaces gets more complicated than solid parts made out of lines and circles, so some operations can definitely be less intuitive. So, any surfacing tutorials you can find should help you get the hang of it. 
  
  Also - this thread has some good information about curvature that applies both to surfacing in general as well as non-circular fillets, splines, etc. 
  https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/14179/curvature-explained-for-normal-people-video-with-animations
  

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  steve_shubin Member Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭✭

  November 2020

  @joshua_davis740
  
  First off — thumbs up on what @alnis_smidchens says

  
  

  Here’s some of what I’ve learned about surfacing - which is a minuscule amount about what’s involved in surfacing
  
  https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/64799#Comment_64799
  
  By the way, for just starting in Onshape, your model looks pretty cool. That’s an old man’s way of saying nice work.
  
  
  

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  joshua_davis740 Member Posts: 6 EDU

  November 2020

  I thank you all for your feedback and support! I have taken a few looks at the training course provided by alnis_smidchens and the discussions that steve_shubin and tim_hess427 mentioned, and just by looking at this information I am already getting a better understanding if complex curves. This helps a-lot, again, thanks for providing this info!

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  steve_shubin Member Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭✭

  November 2020 edited November 2020

  @joshua_davis740
  
  If you read the entire post that I linked to, there was one place where I made the following statement —
  
  Then one at a time, delete one of the tangent constraints and replace it with a curvature constraint.
  
  Disregard this. There’s no need to delete the tangent constraints 
  
  Leave the tangent constraints in place. And then apply the curvature constraints when called for, in the post
  
  
  

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  joshua_davis740 Member Posts: 6 EDU

  November 2020

  Ok, will do. Thanks for the update, you provided a lot of essential information I needed on curves in general. I appreciate the info on the constraints, this stuff is quite tricky.

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