Approach for partial matching Surface

I am trying to create pipe the flares open roughly as shown. eventlly I would like to have the gap at the upper centure curve together and have a larger opening in the top of the pipe.


Problem Join.3dm.zip (1.3 MB)

I am wondering what appoach to take on this. kind of shape.

Well without actually doing it I might go for something like this, the main tubular shape can be one surface, with another going off for the flatter end. Making the edges look all seamless would require a bit of trimming. The way you did that upper surface part resulted in a really dense surface that’s impossible to tweak.

The upper part is a dreaded networksrf. Sweep2 produces aweful results. Even with a small control point count networksrf creates that for the shape. Changing the count appears to have no effect on the count in the surface. I’ve been using REBUILT after the fact.

Thanks for the suggestion. A lot of tweeking was required but I was able to get this.

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