Help to Make a Curved Object Beveled/more 3d

mburn16

Hello All,

I hope someone here might be able to help me out. I currently have a curved, but still flat, Fleur-de-lys that I'm trying to use as decoration/adornment on something I am designing (I won't say what here, at least not yet).

I would like to figure out how to give the Fleur-de-lys a 3D appearance, either with sharp edges or being kind of "bulging" (sorry if these aren't very descriptive. Can Anyone make any suggestions? Are there plugins that might help, perhaps by showing me a centerline for the object, or something else?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm sure I'm just missing something.

dukejazz

put your patten on a flatten cylinder-push pull vector_scale tool_trim outside off
stamp to mesh - sandbox tool
copy and invert -scale
paste in place and trim outside off

3D appearance

dukejazz

If you give your skp file I can build it with
scaleGroupFloat_dj v1.6.5 bata
cumulativeScaler_dj
push pull - cumulativeScaler layers

mburn16

Here is the file. The one I'm working with is the white one, not the red one...the red one is the uncurved version if you need it.

fleur.skp

bunnyack

You also could try a plugin called "Soap Skin & Bubble".
Download:
http://www.tensile-structures.de/sb_software.html

You can use it to "inflate" your model, creating a 3D shape. You could then mirror it to the other side, the result should look great.

Here's a video that demonstrates how it works:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt-rE9cbeSs

Hope this helps,

Kevin

pilou

It's made with a nurbs program but you can make the same with Curviloft by Fredo6 or Extrude Edges Tools by Tig

Remark where are the curves generator

By KH

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1hhZ0_7gP8

mburn16

For some reason, the Soap Skin Bubble won't work. It generates the grid skin, but it neither latches to the selected outlines, nor does it "inflate". I will have to look into the two plugins you mention, and see how well they are for a largely "flat" item, or if I just split it in half and mirror it over.

mburn16

finally figured it out. Looks like I'll need to do the Fleur in multiple sections and combine them together, but it is certainly coming along well.

However, Dukejazz, I would still like to see what you did, if you are willing.

dukejazz

by dukejazz » Yesterday, 3:54 pm

I build it with
scaleGroupFloat_dj v1.6.5 bata
cumulativeScaler_dj
push pull - cumulativeScaler layers -scale

frist four frames is meathod 1 )cumulativeScaler layers steps 1X
others frames is meathod 2) cumulativeScaler layers steps 7X
last two frames is copy invert meathod

erase the cut line and bridge line

fleur_dj.skp

erase the cut line and bridge line

top surface can be rounded by follow me tool