General Surfacing Questions

[Carl_Mesrobian]

I am trying a work flow that is similar to taking strips of wet plaster gauze and laying them on a form. I created a point cloud and then created curves that approximate the point cloud.

The model is for vacuum forming the surface out of laminated sheets of wood veneer. My thoughts are to take wider strip like surfaces, and then try to match them and finally end up with surfaces to join into one 9 x 20 surface mirrored and joined into a 20x18 surface.

My questions:

1. EdgeSrf sometimes makes a surface and sometimes a poly surface, and I’d like to know why.
2. Should all curves going in the same direction have the same degree, i.e., all the horizontal have the same CV’s, and the vertical have the same CV’s?
3. Is this approach practical? The border from the red profile curve, and about 5/8" inward HAS TO BE flat. The margin is the inner curve.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

[scottd (Scott Davidson)]

I might go the other way. Create the completed surface first, then try and split in up in 9x20 surface trims.

Carved top guitars can be challenging: How would I make a carved top guitar (or violin, etc.)?

[Carl_Mesrobian]

Thanks!

The finished polysurface is 9x20 inches. Piecing surfaces together to obtain a 9x20.

I will definitely look at Pascal’s example.