Complex surface divide into regular quads
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Without a SKP file to play with it is harder to help but I would use CurviLoft by Fredo to skin the profiles and rails...
then run the tubing plugin...
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Thank you for your answer, I've tried with curviloft but can't seem to make it work. Maybe because I've never used it and didn't understand all the commands from the tutorial.
Here is the .skp file in sketchup8
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Your profiles are very dense.
Maybe adjust them to reflect the final form you need....
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Sorry, here's a v8 version of the file...
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Thank you again for helping.
The problem is that i need squares of about 1 meter x 1 meter and I can't seem to get that with curviloft.
Plus with curviloft i get that circle on the top as you've made.
I've also tried to make a plane with the 1x1 meter grid and then curved it so that it would fit my surface but I wasn't able to do it. -
This could be a first step:
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Gilles just svaed the day. Nice approach!
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Lot of work after this to make a decent model…
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Thank you very much! I'll download and try tomorrow. It's definitely a lot of work but I need it in order to make an architecture collage on photoshop to show a view of the interior and exterior.
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I've tried your method and I now have the surface with mostly regular quads.
I now have to make "pyramids" on top of them in order to have the final space truss to transform into tubes.
I've started to do that on a face but I'm struggling to get the vertical line to the single face in order to than make the four lines that reach the four vertices in order to make the pyramid. Also is there a way to automatically transform all those quad faces into pyramids with a 1 meters by 1 meters base(the one already existing in the mesh) and a 0.5 meters height? I've tried the s4u to component but can't make it work...Thank you very much for helping!
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Wow! I can't thank you enough, I didn't know sketchup could do something that complex!
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The model is far from perfect, so do one by yourself if you want good results.
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@unknownuser said:
I didn't know sketchup could do something that complex!
SketchUp can make anything! (or near...
You must just training!
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