It's looking nice Zooen! - Michael

Thanks Michael,
Ah! I noticed last night that the soundboard (the top) did not have the same curvature above and below. I couldn't use "Offset>Shell". Well, it's solved, same thing for the background. In addition, all parts (80) must be solids (as in reality). I will have to make these pieces in several files and put everything together at the end.

MoI3D is really an awesome design tool.

Well, I resumed the creation at the beginning, or almost. I was not satisfied...
As I'm not a fan of photorealistic renderings, I extracted the edges of the three main solids (the soundboard, the back and the side) to have curves and rework the images below without leaving MoI3D . There are certainly things to dig into with this process.

- Zooen

Well, I think the soundboard, back and sides are definitely finished.
There remained the outlines to be made in a rounded shape, but with an almost flat shape on their lower part and sorts of connecting beaks in the pointed parts. All of this had to be joined with the rest to get a solid.
- Zooen

Hello,
I have just resumed the creation of my violin, interrupted for some time.
I'm a bit in difficulty to achieve the volute and neck part which is almost an organic modeling!

So I'm appealing to you for suggestions to make this part of the violin with MoI3D. I attach several images to illustrate my point.

I did a lot of research and found a lot of technical documentation, as well as tutorials with Blender and Modo.

Cristobal Vital has made available a series of very detailed tutorials with Modo where we see that the realization of the Volute part and the handle is quite complex.

https://etereaestudios.com/2020/04/07/tutorial-violin/

The scroll has been on my to-do list since before 2018.

Carving instruction link:
http://www.makingtheviolin.com/

How to carve away wood in MoI? A subtractive process.

Or how to model the surfaces?

Have seen several side views of the scroll of historic violins. They vary.

- Brian

Hi Zooen, some previous discussion threads here which may have some information and other links:

http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=4743.1
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=1050.1

- Michael

And a Rhino tutorial video here which may have some ideas to explore:
https://vimeo.com/29107013

- Michael

Hi,
Thank you all for your responses. I look at all this to finalize my violin.

I see people(16) uploaded the jpeg image of the listed "Sradivaruis_Betts" violin volute. If you want high and very high quality images in jpeg format of different "Stradivaruis" violins, you have to go to the "Library of congresses" site, for example here: https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200154811/

- Zooen