I hope the new picture helps. The block of wood is a 2+x6" piece of wood with the recoil pad screwed to it. The wood will be fastened to the table top and one side profiled and then turned over for the other side. The wood needs to be contoured like the black recoil pad. Until now I have been removing much of the wood on a milling machine and then finishing the process with a table top belt sander.

Hope this helps

Tony

Hi Tony, so I guess you just want to model the basic curved outline of the shoulder pad?

I'm still not entirely sure if I understand, but if you want to construct a block with a curved outline in MoI then the way you would do that is to run the Draw curve > Freeform > Control points command here:



Then go to the Front view, and draw a profile curve that has the shape you want, something like this for example:



Then you can construct a solid block from that profile curve by selecting it and running the Construct > Extrude command here:



That will produce a result like this:




In order to make a good match with your shoulder pad you will probably want to take a picture of it from straight above and then place that image into MoI as a background image so that you can see it in the viewport and use it as a tracing guide when you are drawing the curve.

To place a background image you use the View > Image command, as shown here:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=4506.2


Please let me know if I still did not understand what you are trying to do.

- Michael