Very cool Burrman! I had tried this with curves without success, but now I will try it by extruding to solids.

Where is Antarctica? Just kidding :-)

This will come in hady when I am reviewing world geography with my kids. Better than a globe!

Michael T.

"""""""""Where is Antarctica?""""""""

Surf was up that day in geography.. Sorry. :o

Hi BurrMan

working with solids like that works well, my client had wanted just the outlines, but I think solids look better, I'll see what he say.

( just trying to drum up some quick work so I can afford to by MoI :) I know MoI is well priced, but still out of my reach :) )

Hi Stevecim,
In your original post you were speaking of needing to boolean the continents away from the globe.. If all you want is lines, then you could probably do an "isect" command and generate outlines of the continents.

Look under construct-curve-isect and give that a whirl. Then you could also trim the globe surface with those curves and have continent surfaces too... Maybe run "ExplodeMove" on the seperated lot, to make a cool 3d image of the thing.

thanks Burrman, I'll give it a try :)

Earth.. ExplodeMove!!!!!

I love ZSurf. Used it quite a lot. Here are two examples:

http://grabcad.com/library/peugeot-badge-and-loge
http://grabcad.com/library/relief-with-frame

Nice work Sebastian, Like most MoI users here, your work is at a level I can only bream of reaching :)

here is what I done so far with Moi + ZSurf.

Made an Antarctica from NASA map.
Outline is mostly ice...
Probably too many control points.
Planar and extrude work, but are very slow.
Not to scale...

a 3d pdf for the kids to learn from???

"Hey, where's antarctica???"



Very good johnny... :)

My two cents, from a cartographic point of view:
To create a correct globe in Moi, use a world-map that is "Unprojected" or is in the "Geographic projection". This is a world map with a 2:1 width/height ratio that will produce a correct globe.

thanks Dexter