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    Complex surface divide into regular quads

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    • Rich O BrienR
      Rich O Brien Moderator
      last edited by

      Your profiles are very dense.

      Maybe adjust them to reflect the final form you need....

      screen-grab_064.jpg

      Space truss.skp

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      • Rich O BrienR
        Rich O Brien Moderator
        last edited by

        Sorry, here's a v8 version of the file...

        Space truss-v8.skp

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          Mike91
          last edited by

          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.

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          • gillesG
            gilles
            last edited by

            This could be a first step:

            slicer5 from TIG in extension store.

            " c'est curieux chez les marins ce besoin de faire des phrases "

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            • Rich O BrienR
              Rich O Brien Moderator
              last edited by

              Gilles just svaed the day. Nice approach!


              screen-grab_065.jpg

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              • gillesG
                gilles
                last edited by

                Lot of work after this to make a decent model…

                " c'est curieux chez les marins ce besoin de faire des phrases "

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                  Mike91
                  last edited by

                  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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                    Mike91
                    last edited by

                    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!


                    Space truss.skp

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                    • gillesG
                      gilles
                      last edited by

                      Ok, let's have a more simple workflow:


                      Find the center of the arc


                      create a comp and copy/array


                      copy/array on the other side


                      erase unwanted


                      Spacetruss.skp

                      " c'est curieux chez les marins ce besoin de faire des phrases "

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                        Mike91
                        last edited by

                        Wow! I can't thank you enough, I didn't know sketchup could do something that complex!

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                        • gillesG
                          gilles
                          last edited by

                          The model is far from perfect, so do one by yourself if you want good results.

                          " c'est curieux chez les marins ce besoin de faire des phrases "

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                          • pilouP
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                            @unknownuser said:

                            I didn't know sketchup could do something that complex!

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