first,, moi3d seems to be a quite noce piece of software, i am maing my tryouts to
take a final decision if i buy it.

hi this are my first attempts with te moi3d trial

as u can see on the picture there is a nurbs surface
made out of 3 curves. i ve attached the file.

My questions:
A. the surface is very smoth and round, or curvy,,,frmo curve to curve. how can i make the surface get a hard line in it, where the yellow curves are

B.How can i make a surface bewteen B and C . B is one part of a whole curve that i cant, select, how to?

kind regards

Hi nukkle, thanks for testing MoI!

> A. the surface is very smoth and round, or curvy,,,frmo curve
> to curve. how can i make the surface get a hard line in it, where
> the yellow curves are

How was your surface created? Was it by using the Loft command?

There is an option in the Loft command for "Loft style", and if you switch it to Loft Style = Straight, you will get hard lines between each surface rather than a smooth surface.

If you want to maintain the general shape of that current surface but put a small sharp bit in it, then generally the way you would do that would be to draw in some planar curves in a side view so that they are arranged like this:




Then you would trim the surface using those planar curves as the cutting objects:






Now you can connect the trimmed edges with a Loft which will be straight, or also draw in a small profile curve and do a sweep with those trimmed edges as the rails.


> B.How can i make a surface bewteen B and C . B is one part
> of a whole curve that i cant, select, how to?

Select the curve and then use Edit/Trim to break it into smaller pieces - when it asks you to pick cutting objects in the Trim command, you can push the "Add trim points" button to pick some points on the curve to cut it with if you don't have any other cutting objects around to intersect it.

- Michael

Hi nukkkle, also one more note:

> B.How can i make a surface bewteen B and C . B is
> one part of a whole curve that i cant, select, how to?

It looks like you do actually have a surface edge there that will give you what you need.

However, there is one of your earlier construction curves running over top of it, and independent curve objects have selection priority above surface edges, so it is hogging the selection.

To solve this, select that long curve and hide or delete it to get it out of the way. That will then make it possible for you to select the surface edge.


It's not a bad idea to get in the habit of hiding or deleting your construction curves after you have built a surface from them if you plan to do stuff to edges later on.


- Michael

thanks michael you re a machine, this answer took you only a couple of minutes, lightspeed service,,thank you very much :) i appreciate that

Hi nukkle, no problem, glad to be of help! :)

By the way, I posted one other note above at the same time you were replying, it may be easy to miss it when that happens.

- Michael

i ve already seen it :)