You say that Union boolean works for these complex shapes only exporting as Sat format from Moi then importing in Moi ?

Yes, and seems to be only SAT (no: 3dm, Step and Iges) only Sat and Sometime Fillets work better too. I don´t know why, but I think the patch geometrie change a little bit. In the tutorial you can see at step (Trim-Isocurve part) on spiral (rings), next step(Union Boole part) the rings are spit.

When you export to SAT format it splits any closed edges or surfaces in half, so for example if you have a cylinder and export it to SAT when you reimport it you'll see it's in 2 halves instead of just one closed surface.

Also during SAT export it does a "ShrinkTrimmedSrf" to shrink down underlying surfaces down to their active trimming boundary area.

When the split happens it means that there is no longer any "seam" edges in the model, probably whatever problem you were running into involved something about seam edges. Or possibly if there were some self-intersecting bunched areas outside of the active trim boundary areas the ShrinkTrimmedSrf part can throw those pieces out.

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Zarkow, you're going to work in the movie industry someday!

Stunning!

Awesome stuff ... :)

Well done Zarkow

mmm.....I like crustaceans, however these look a little dangerous and chewy :)
Nice modelling and rendering zarkow, very dramatic.

Thanks for sharing.

I'm loving this model, but coming from a poly-modeling background, I'm not wrapping my head around extruding the curves, and then blending to get the initial cylindrical shape. Could someone elaborate please?

Thanks.

SPH

hi,

i dont get the "flow" here ???


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t.