Hi,

I made the central floral motif (see joint file) using a single open profile and a rail (outer edge of the floral motif) with rail revolve. I just realized that the result just outside the central part is distorted and I don't understand why? You need to look. at it from pretty close, at 10 and 11 o'clock the shape looks about ok but as you go away from this spot seems distorted.

Thanks,
Felix

Hi Felix, I'm sorry but I'm not really seeing any distortion jump out at me.

Can you maybe post a screenshot with an arrow pointing to the specific area where the distortion is located at?


That is a nice use of rail revolve to make the flower pattern!


- Michael

One thing to check is your original profile curves that you used to create the rail revolve.

Check stuff like the profile ends are exactly vertical to one another and aren't shifted by some small amount from one another.

If the ends were not trued up and you snapped on to the ends as the revolve axis then that could make for a slightly tilted result.

- Michael

Hi Michael,

sorry, I realised the apparent distorsions are just lighting effects. I made sure the profile and rail curve are orthogonal and that I can surface each of them with planar before using rail revolve, that why I didn't understand what was going on.

Sorry again,
Felix