Hey chippwalters,

"Flow doesnt produce a perfect continuous surface"

It will work much better if you make the base surface more of a replica of the target surface...

I had some ideas on this but will be away for another week or so... mostly i wanted to try to use a fillet on the compound surface to get the curve, as opposed to a straight offset...

"It will work much better if you make the base surface more of a replica of the target surface..."

Not exactly sure what is meant here. As far as I can tell, the base surface is a rectangle; the same as the target surface. Only one is bent and the other is not.
Perhaps what you're saying to to try and create the the base surface from the target surface, then edit it? If so, I suspect there still may be a slight continuity issue.

"""""Not exactly sure what is meant here. """""

It has to do with flow analysing the 2 surface structures... When they are disparate, then the result can be distorted a bit...

SO like is the rectangle edges and size the same as the target edges and size? (for 2d) For the 3d surface, the actual structure of the underlying surface matters too. So the target surface, turn on the points for it, then look at the points for the base surface....

There are some demos on the forum that demonstrate the topic.... I am away in cali so can't really get into it too much...

Burrman,

Thanks for that. How do I turn on the points for a surface? I thought I could only do that with edges. Thanks!

Unjoined surfaces will show points. So once you trim that target surface out, and its seperate, you can turn on points for it.. you will notice it has the same points as the full surface too... at this point you can also run ShrinkTrimmedSrf to shrink the underlying surface to a minimal representation.

Nice video Chipp, thanks for taking the time.

Flow is a most useful tool, I don't use it enough!

Marc

Nice tutorial Chipp!

Sometimes you have to go with the 'flow'. ;-)