Thanks Martin, Michael, Pilou,
Danny, I didn't use zsurf, What I did was create a grid of free form lines that were in relief in the shape of the bear that was (height wise) in a rectangle and then networked them as a surface. then I made an extruded shape of bear to get the out line. I then cut the extruded solid of the bear with the surface. I used this method as I needed to then cut out the features and this way made it easy to do so (I added the nose after the fact). plus if I needed to I could redo the surface by just adjusting the points of the curves and re-network it. Once I had built all of the parts and connected them together I then used the flow command.
I'm not all together sure what process they used as I sent it off to the client and they dealt with the manufacturer. Some kind of silicone I guess.
Mike, I too love it when things i do get on the shelf.
Val
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