Hi Brian, here is a different method.
In this method, you don't worry so much about the circular outer boundary or inner hole of the hat brim, just try to think of it how it would look as one big rectangular sheet.
So I drew some curves:
Those are then used as the profile shapes for a sweep, the rails are the other 2 ones along the edges, that will create this surface:
Now you have the rounded outline curve that you drew:
Now trim the rectangular sheet using your round outline curve as the cutting object, and throw away the outside part:
Now trim this and the top part against each other, at this point it is good if the top part kind of sticks a little bit down through the bottom sheet, it is easier to make sure that pieces will join up properly if they push through each other and then get trimmed down to the common intersection. That creates this:
Model is attached as BRsSHat_new.zip .
The thing that is nice about this method is that there are fewer final pieces, so there is less worry about alignment between a bunch of small pieces.
Instead of trying to negotiate around a hole bit by bit, it is better to pretend for a minute that the hole doesn't exist, then trim out the hole later on.
Sometimes this is a bit difficult because it is easy to focus so much on the outlines of the final shape, it is easy to be concentrating a lot on using those outlines as direct surface construction profiles instead of as trimming profiles.
- Michael |
