Making solid 3 intersecting curves

jacbk612

Hi, not sure if this is a newbie question but I am trying to model an acoustic guitar and have much of it done. However I am hung up on how to do the 3 intersecting curves that form the bottom of the neck on the guitar. I have included a picture. I have tried Fredo's curviloft but the results are not what is required.

Thanks,

Jacques

assuming the guitar is lying flat on the large flat bottom face, the 1st curve surface is on the neck and in the vertical plane and is an arc, the next surface is on the guitar body in the vertical plane and is a curved rectangle, the last surface is in the horizontal plane and is an extended arc shape

gilles

Have a look at this file for ideas.

All plugins used can be found in Plugins index
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=250026

Guitar-heroe.skp

gilles

OUpS! J'oublie souvent.

@Pilou: il faudrait nous pondre un plugin qui enregistre automatiquement en V6

Guitar-heroe_V6.skp

pbacot

This is done with Curviloft skinning on 1/2 the profiles. Would that work for you?

I just drew some arcs. I know they aren't the exact curves. I see that you are looking for the actual block piece and not the full transitional shape to the straight part of the neck, but you could cut it afterward.

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TIG

Jim wrote a plugin that saves as the previous version - it just needs a tweak to do two steps back...
Jim a écrit un plugin qui permet d'économiser de la version précédente - il a juste besoin d'un tweak de faire deux pas en arrière ...

gilles

Windows only....

jacbk612

Wow! Yes, thank you very much.

Jacques