Hi Marco,

me again... after watching your video again the Moai Light Bulb (from the MoI Logo) switched on in my head... :-)

I have now a solution which does not require to trim the large surface, in order to get a solid heart.

What i did, i followed you video again until you did the rebuild command and then the trim command.
After that i offset the large surface inwards, deleted the original large surface and did a loft (straight/exact)
between the heart shape edge and the inward large surface edge. After that i joined the surfaces, mirrored
them and joined them to get a solid heart.

It seems that rebuild is a must! Before i did not do that and was not able to get a clean surface and join
the lofted surfaces.

Best regards
Stefan

Hello Stefan,

It's nice to know you found my little tutorial interesting and useful.

> "...have not thought about trimming the large surface..."

Moi is a great tool, but as Michael said many times, its shelling and offsetting (and also filleting) routines are rather weak.
I've experienced many times that dealing with large and complex trimmed surfaces,
a winner solution is to follow the ancient Latin saying : "Divide et impera".

P.S. Just for fun I want to try to build the same engraved heart, using my "Lightweight Modelling" technique,
in order to obtain a final solid, made by a fairy lower amount of control points.

Best,

Hi again Stefan!

> "I have now a solution which does not require to trim the large surface, in order to get a solid heart."

Nice technique! Thanks a lot!

> "It seems that rebuild is a must!"

Yeah, it's absolutely necessary in particular situations, especially where a complex trimmed surface edges
or complex "unstructured" curves are used as input for the "project" command.

See you,

what is a way to make such surface and extrusion from curve?

You can also use the Flow function! :)

Alas with the heart above one of the curve is too more complex in one pass even in using the Rebuild function! :(
Maybe with the V4 and 64 bits...

Here the concept :)

Hi glmr,

re:
> what is a way to make such surface and extrusion from curve?

Which particular surface and extrusion are you asking about?

- Michael

I'm asking about actions between 1st and 2nd screenshot of topicstarter. I can do a rojection of pattern, but I can't make a surface on solid from the projection

Hi glmr,

after you did the projection do a "rebuild" of the curves, by entering the word "rebuild" into the coordinate input in MoI's bottom menu. Once that is done simply use the trim command. After that join all surfaces at once to get a solid.

Regards
Stefan

thanks. I don't really understand how, but it works!

Just a little update, i finalized my model and uploaded a short turntable animation on Vimeo.
Hope you like the final result.

Thanks again Marco for the valuable help!

https://vimeo.com/190274111

Regards
Stefan

You're welcome Stefan.

I have seen the turntable animation and you achieved a very beautiful result!
A very nice jewel.
I congratulate you on this idea.

See you.

Hey Marco,

Why don't you upload your video on YouTube or Vimeo?

Thanks for the kind words Marco, much appreciated!

Best regards
Stefan

Hello Chippwalters,

How are you ? I hope fine.

Just out of curiosity...
Do you keep testing on Moi-3D-Coat-KeyShot pipeline ?
Are you making new progress ?

> "Why don't you upload your video on YouTube or Vimeo?"

Well...I don't have neither a YouTube channel nor Vimeo channel because I have no time to deal with these things :)

See you.