Thanks everyone for the input. I did rebuild it from scratch and it looks great (tho I'll go back to the other one for some practice). One question, does it matter if you take a solid and cut everything from it vs drawing a closed curve outline and extruding it to a solid and then cutting from it?

Also with Trim, how does it know what direction to take the cutting plane from?

Thanks,
Scott

Hi Scott,

> One question, does it matter if you take a solid and cut everything from it vs drawing
> a closed curve outline and extruding it to a solid and then cutting from it?

It doesn't really matter how you make the base solid, a solid extruded from a closed curve is just as much a solid as any other way... I'm not exactly sure what other method of creating the solid you are asking about for comparison with extrude though...


> Also with Trim, how does it know what direction to take the cutting plane from?

If the cutting object in Trim is a planar curve, it uses the normal of that curve's plane as the projection direction.

Hope this helps!

- Michael

Hello,

I've uploaded one method to make the part from the reference. Comments and critiques are welcome.

Part Creation From Reference

https://vimeo.com/125976976

Cool re-engeneering!

Thanks so much for producing that. It's great to watch over someones's shoulder as you did. I learned a lot.

Scott

Hello,

I finished off the back part of the model since there were a few more commands in MoI that could be useful in the part creation process.

https://vimeo.com/126180724

Very clear explanation!

Hello Pilou,

Thank you for the compliments, now if only I could distill it down to a few minutes.