Salut,

an advice if you are a beginner: you must allways solid model, if you can in relation to your forms.

Work surfaces and solid stitching requires excellent modeling discipline.
Indeed, it does not support any opening, tear, inaccuracy.

Antoine

ok, I'll do a video tonight, for demonstration ;)

Antoine

Thanks. Appreciate it.

Johan.
As Antoine has hinted, it's usually best if you can model straight from some kind of solid.

Some advice that I have taken on board about 3D modelling, is that of carving away sections from a base shape in order to 'reveal' your creation, in a similar way to how you would engineer a piece of stock material, in say a milling machine.

In ViaCAD Pro you can use curves, solids and surfaces to split and trim bits off base solids and base surfaces to rapidly make complicated shapes, which can then be used as cutting tools to help achieve your design goals.

I think you do already know this, but I believe it's worth mentioning because it is a powerful way of working to make an intrinsically flawless object.



Martin.

Nice, it is interesting to see a different workflow. To create the same basic shape I would have created arcs and not had the flexibility you built into it with the splines. Thank you for sharing!
-dale