Hi,
What's the best way to create a plane area on my bottle in order to put a label. Just on facing.
See my screen shot
Thanks

Do you need a cylindrical area? (Cylinder will accept a rectangular piece of label paper.)
Or a planar area?
- B

yes cylindrical area

A cone, or frustum, is a developable surface. (The revolve of a line segment.)
Since the bottle tapers, making one section a frustum would allow a flat label to be applied, and not distort the bottle very much.
The flat label would not be a rectangle. The label could be the shape of an unwrapped frustum. Or part of the unwrap.
The Unwrapcone or Unwrapcone2 script could be used.
Text on the label would arc, to appear straight on the wrapped label?

- Brian

Inserting a cylinder into the "tapered" bottle would change the bottle shape a lot.

Hi Finema, the Transform > Deform > Flow command can be useful for something like that:
http://moi3d.com/3.0/docs/moi_command_reference8.htm#flow

For your case you could try making a base plane and flat object and then apply it onto the outer surface like this:



It also might be convenient to trim out a smaller area and use that as the target rather than targeting a small area of a larger surface.

If you want some kind of picture applied to it that is usually be the kind of thing you would do with texture mapping in a rendering program.

- Michael

Thank you, but I misspoke.
Actually I wanted to create a flat surface so that the label could stick to the face without breaking the curve when viewed from the front.
I did it with a Network and a Trim.
Here is the visual.
Thanks again.