Another nice tutorial to add to your collection Mike!

- Michael

Thanks for sharing that Mike. Those kind of indents or scallops are very common in a lot of objects. Blend is your friend :)

Ed

Thanks!

> to add to your collection
Yes, it's beginning to become a veritable candy store of MoI goodness. :-)

Here's something shiny I threw together to test the method out... It's just a panel with a vent... maybe I should design the whole vehicle. ;-)

just had a look at your Tutorial page, can't wait to work through every one of them :)

Cheers, Steve

Cool!

Feel free to ask questions and give me pointers when you find them. :-)

If you end up with a nice render of any tutorial reproduction, I'll consider adding it next to their associated entry on my page.

Nice tutorial

Lets hope we get blending options with network surfaces in V3, it would make it much easier to control the shape of the blend.

I agree.

I'd also very, very, very much enjoy the ability to blend from three or four separate surface edges simultaneously, all with individual tangent control options. =-)

Oooooh... that would be niiice.

Thanks for all the good info and examples...

Peace,
Rich_Art. :-)

Thanks Mike for this" sophisticated " stuff

Magnificent lesson. Thanks Magic! What do I do not correctly? The smooth surface is impossible...

Klickoff, I was able to re-Blend that area and got this smooth result. (shown)

The broad line you made at the bottom needs to be Extruded and made into a planar or curved surface, as long as it kind of follows the general curvature or at the least the direction of the surface you want.
I performed a Blend by selecting the actual curves on the edges of the surfaces. (shown highlighted)
The Blend made the surface by following the tangent from the surface edges.

However, I needed to Blend from the whole length of the edge at the top.

Here:

I did a "Merge" command on the whole length to get one solid edge line by which to Blend from.
It's very smooth.

Are you able to try this?
Let me know, so I can see what's happening.



http://www.mediafire.com/?3x2zag0yqtd8pmz
Look at your file with the blend.

Thank you very much, Mike.Yes, i am happy.)))

Another diddy...

Awesome MM. UFO? Hubcap off an AMC Pacer? Kneecap off CP3O?

Ed

All of the above... it depends on your perspective ;-)

Could make a good bundt cake mold too! :) Haven't had any bundt cake for quite a while!

- Michael

Mmm, reminds me of my late grandmother's Grecian orange cake.



Just soaked to the core with orangy-syrupy-goodness. =-)


Now how much would a cake recipe be worth if the bundt cake pan was custom modeled in MoI and CNC'ed?
Okay... I'm getting hungry.

One of our man from Russian MOI 3D community made today this video)
May be it will be interesting for russian-speaking people)

Очень хороший!
Спасибо

Thanks Andrei, I'm glad this was very well demonstrated.
And this qualifies for my "first" video tutorial. ;-)

aha-ha-ha, sounds very funny in russian, what you wrote)))
It was very cool tutorial)!