Learning the basics.

 From:  Michael Gibson
6617.34 In reply to 6617.33 
Hi David,

> I'm pretty sure that is because of my main shape, and that's the core of my issue, how
> do you build your main shape to be sure it will fit all your cut in any views.

So I guess that normally you would just not go about it in this particular way of trying to control a cut profile from 2 different directions at the same time...

Focus on one cut direction and on how to form the main shape.


> The bulge on the back and on the side are just here to say that it is not a primary shape
> and you can't take a sphere and deform it, maybe you can/should?

It's maybe possible to deform a sphere but it's hard to get very localized features that way. It looks to me like you've still got a primary shape under that outline, notice how there is basically a pattern that starts at the base and continues above the bumps, here I've traced it with red:




Try to ignore the localized bumps and just work on the non-bumped underlying full form. Try to build a base shape that matches that outline first before starting to get into cuts.

- Michael
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