Hi Michael,

I was playing around with Nsided and modelled a test surface with a 5 sided hole (see attached) applied Nsided patch and it didn't come out to crash hot so I thought I'd uploaded it for you to test other solutions maybe.

Anyone else can have a go and see if you can get a nice tangent continuous surface from all 5 surface edges :)

BTW I have one solution however it's still not perfect.

Cheers
~Danny~

Works fine here under OSX, with the standard settings in MoI.



Regards
Stefan

For me also works good on windows:


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Here is OK Danny :)

Thanks for testing guys, Nsided works for me also however there are inflections between some of the surfaces, I believe a Nsided surface should be tangent to each mating surface in this case it's not.
The reason I posted it.

Cheers
~Danny~

Hi Danny,

> I believe a Nsided surface should be tangent to each mating surface in this case it's not.

As far as I can tell it seems to be tangent to each mating surface, a Zebra stripe analysis of the default generated patch looks like this:



Note there how all the zebra lines touch each other across the boundary lines? That means they are tangent.

I can see what you don't like about the patch though - but it's not that it's not tangent though it's that there's a kind of build up of curvature in a relatively small area near by the outer edges of the patch. Currently the n-sided patch mechanism has a tendency to do that kind of shaping, I do want to try to explore some different ways to reduce it.

Sometimes tweaking the "Bulge" factor can help.

- Michael

Thanks Michael,

Just thought I'd put it out there so I know what is actually happening at surface to surface juncture while testing Nsided.

Cheers