Hi airdog, here is a kind of different method for building in strips.
What I did is I started by drawing some curves in the front view:
Here is what these curves look like in the 3D view, they are all stacked up:
Then slide them over to separate them, keeping 2 together in the middle:
Then select 2 of them:
And run Construct / Loft to create a surface between them:
Then select the other 2 and repeat:
This is the result:
I just put this together really quickly, I think you would want to probably be more careful so that all the pieces lined up on the right side for the middle pair, so that the 2 strips would touch exactly in that common area. Probably one way to do that would be to have the curves made up of more than one piece, and have an identical piece along that right side portion.
Some other ideas are instead of using 2 curves for a strip, you could gain some more control over the shaping by using additional curves like 3 or 4 curves for a single strip, and then you can get some more control over the shaping of the strip by having some variations in the shapes of those inside curves. Also another approach would be to draw some crossing pieces and then build the strips using sweep with those pairs as the sweep rails.
I hope this might be useful,
- Michael |
