Difficulty Modelling something

[boofredlay]

Your link takes me to a "Product or Page Unavailable" page.

[mxabucknell]

hmph. The link has broken since yesterday- I'll post the pictures...

Sorry about that...

---

---

[pilou]

Maybe this video can help you

[Voder Vocoder]

mxabucknell,

Keep in mind that this is just a quick demonstration of a general method. I didn't invest enough time and effort in this to nail the exact shape.

~Voder

---

mx.skp

[pbacot]

buy me one and I'll send you photos.

[mxabucknell]

OOPS!

I went on a plugin spree the other day, and I forgot about ffd- I will get it later, when I'm on a computer with Sketchup- I will have a look at that .skp as well.

Thanks a load...

[mxabucknell]

I had a look at your model- very nice claps But, what did you use to go from the wire frame to the fleshed out model. I tried a from contours, but it wasn't wuite the same...

I just pray that you didn't use soap skin bubble, because then I'm really stuffed

[Voder Vocoder]

@mxabucknell said:

But, what did you use to go from the wire frame to the fleshed out model.

A combination of skin.rb and hand-stitching.

~Voder

[sketch3d.de]

for modeling organic freeform shapes get hold of a feature-based NURBS modeler as e.g. ViaCAD Pro f. Win/OSX which does support advanced surface modeling, at least if you wanna export as IGES/STEP/SAT into e.g. CAM systems for production:

2D / 3D CAD and Drafting Software | CAD Software for Mac and Windows | CAD Programs | Drawing Software | Architecture Design Software

2D / 3D CAD and Drafting Software, CAD Software for Mac and Windows, CAD Programs, Drawing Software, Architecture Design Software

(www.punchcad.com)

SU import avail.

hth,
Norbert

[remus]

Id have to go with norbert on this, its a lot easier doing stuff like this with NURBS. You can then convert to polys if you need to. MoI is a good place to start for easy NURBS modelling.