Follow-me twist problem

thegoodguy

Wow!

I kind of owe you all a little apology. The rectangular profile was super-simplified to illustrate the problem. I realise now that the impacts any solutions you guys may post. The actual profile I want to use is this:

Box; As I mentioned in my initial post, I tried Upright Extruder. It produces results much like the vertex option. It's good, but not perfect. The edge-extrusion/joint-push-pull produces similar results too, and also, I don't think that option would work with the profile I need. True-Bend is a great suggestion. After "flattening" the ring rail/path using the Unfold tool, producing a flattened complete ring using follow-me and the profile, and then using True-Bend, I'm getting exactly what I need.

The only issue I'm having now is the final solid isn't the "solid" that's needed for 3D-printing. There are many errors that Solid-Inspector finds. I know this is due to the high resultion I need to get a good final result when the ring is actually cast. I'm experimenting with scaling up before True-Bending. Hopefully that will solve the solid issue.

Thank you all for your input, suggestions and solutions. They've been v helpful and have reduced my headache

pilou

And why not use Curviloft for propagate some profils on rails?

thegoodguy

And the winner is ... Curviloft

Excellent solution pilou. Thank you v much. The perfect shape and a perfect solid with no complex intersections to fix.

Should fit snuggly against this lovely little Edwardian engagement ring.

Thanks again, everyone.

Box

If you are doing a lot of jewelry it would be well worth your time to look into using vertex tools and true bend. It makes it easy to create rings from non symmetric geometry. And you can be as detailed as you need as long as you model cleanly. This required no cleanup after the bend except the removal of the double inner faces at the join. I only used 96 segments but you can easily go to the 200 you were using if need be.

thegoodguy

Hi again,

Upon closer inspection, although the solidness is good and the profile alignment is good along all of the "straight" section of the rail, using Curviloft, the profile does twist on the shaped part of the rail. Back to TrueBend and solid-fixing. Scaling up x1000 reduced the errors to only 3 ... phew.

Just thought you might like to know.

pilou

Maybe we can try something...
Post the file of Profils and Rails in dxf format and let see that Moi3D (nurbs) will made as result in SKP format export...

...not sure...of the result (it's not your file just a test)

Here the structure of export SKP

Reloaded in SU

I must ask more polygons in export! (rendered as SKP file)

This time edges are perfect! (for an SKP file)

more poly2.jpg